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Daily Mail<\/a>: Man featured in Time cover story on immigration reform is sentenced to 15 years in prison for child porn and sexually exploiting boy with brain cancer
\nRoy Naim, 32, was featured in 2012 story ‘We are Americans’
\nFederal agents found porn depicting boys as young as 9 on his computer
\nHe also admitted to viewing and downloading porn for multiple years
\nNaim was found out after the arrest of a Louisiana child porn producer who fooled boys into thinking they were video conferencing with teen girls
\nOne of the victims was a teen boy with a brain tumor who attended a summer camp for children with cancer, where Naim was a counselor <\/p>\n

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A New York man who was once featured in a Time magazine cover story about immigration reform has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for possession of child pornography.
\nRoy Naim, 32, who was featured in the 2012 story titled ‘We are Americans…just not legally’, was also convicted in 2014 for attempted exploitation.
\nFederal agents found porn that depicted boys as young as nine years old performing sexual acts on Naim’s computer. He admitted to viewing and downloading the porn for multiple years.
\nThey were led to his Brooklyn home after arresting suspected child porn producer Johnathan Johnson, who fooled underage boys into thinking they were video conferencing with teenage girls and then recorded the acts.<\/p>\n

The videos were posted on a website called and was sent to others through email, according to New York Daily News.
\nOne of the victims was a teenage boy who was suffering from a brain tumor. He had attended a camp for children with cancer, where Naim worked as a counselor.
\nJohnson was sentenced to 21 years in prison.
\nNaim, who immigrated to the US with his family when he was three years old, was named the ‘Jewish face of the immigration reform struggle’ after he appeared in the Time story.
\nIt was the first time Naim made his undocumented status publicly known.
\n‘My being public protects me because America loves stories,’ he told The Forward in 2013.
\n‘And when we hear about a good person \u2014 a person who is nice, who cares \u2014 we don’t want him deported; we want him in this country.’
\nNaim will be deported to Israel after completing his sentence. <\/p>\n

‘I failed as a human being,’ Naim said in court. ‘The pain of this young victim and his family…I cannot imagine what they’re going through and I’m the cause of all this.’
\nNaim had been molested by an older cousin when he was 11 years old and struggled with his ‘urges’ in the Orthodox Jewish community, court papers revealed.
\nHe later became the only member of his family not to gain citizenship in the US.
\nBoth were brought up during Naim’s sentencing by Brooklyn federal judge Nicholas Garaufis.
\n‘He lives in a community where his urges, his needs, sexually, are more than frowned upon. Maybe some of the people in this room could have helped him and should look in the mirror. You know who you are,’ Garaufis said.
\n‘His entire family was naturalized but he was left out,’ he added. ‘People should look in the mirror about that.’
\nNaim faced life in prison without the possibility of parole under his charges, which Garaufis called ‘incredibly excessive and irrational’.
\nProsecutors had asked the judge to sentence Naim to at least 20 years behind bars.
\nInstead the judge sentenced Naim to the mandatory minimum time he was required to spend in prison, and said he believed Naim was ‘truly remorseful’.
\n‘But you have to do more than that,’ he told Naim. ‘You have to come to grips with your evil angels.’ <\/p>\n