STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A Tompkinsville man did the unthinkable – showing two young female relatives pornography and then performing the sexual acts on them, said prosecutors.
Now he'll pay for those actions.
Eric Pagan, 47, has pleaded guilty to a top-count sex charge that will put him behind bars for eight years, prosecutors said.
The victims were under the age of 11, said prosecutors.
The crimes occurred between June 1 of last year and Feb. 16 of this year, the indictment against Pagan stated.
According to prosecutors, Pagan showed pornographic videos to the two victims, then re-enacted the performances on them.
Court documents do not say where the incidents occurred.
Pagan ultimately got wind that prosecutors were investigating him and lit out to a friend's home in Texas, prosecutors said.
U.S. marshals nabbed him on March 14.
The defendant declined to waive extradition, requiring prosecutors to obtain a governor's warrant to return him to New York.
NYPD detectives brought him back to Staten Island, where he pleaded not guilty at his arraignment June 27 in state Supreme Court, St. George, orosecutors said.
He was charged with multiple sex-related counts.
Pagan took back his original plea on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to first-degree course of sexual conduct against a child, said prosecutors. The charge accuses him of sodomizing one of the victims.
"Eric Pagan violated the trust of these children and stole their innocence by committing horrific acts of sexual conduct against his young victims," said District Attorney Daniel Donovan in a statement.
"I want to commend these brave little girls for coming forward and refusing to be victims any longer. Based on the strength of their courageous testimony, my prosecutors developed a solid case against the defendant, who took responsibility for his heinous crimes by admitting to the top charge he was facing in the nine-count indictment," said the D.A.
Assistant District Attorney Victoria Levin is prosecuting the case.
Pagan will be sentenced Sept. 12.
His lawyer, Paul A. Capofari, declined comment on the case.