Greenwich man sentenced for creating child sex abuse images

GREENWICH, N.Y. (NEWS10)– The U.S. Attorney’s Office reported that 48-year-old David Dion, of Greenwich, has been sentenced after admitting to multiple charges in a sex crime investigation. According to officials, he received a prison sentence of 12 years and 7 months.

Dion was arrested in February 2024 after New York State Police executed a search warrant at his home, revealing he possessed images of child sexual abuse on five devices.

Almost a year later in February 2025, Dion admitted that between July 2023 and January 2024, he digitally shared numerous pictures and videos with another person that depicted the sexual exploitation of children. He additionally confessed to producing his own child sex abuse images by superimposing the faces of children he knew onto photos of minors being forced to engage in sexual acts.

Investigators said Dion had more than 205,000 images and 545 videos of child sex abuse on the devices. He was charged with distributing and possessing child sex abuse images and possessing a sexual performance by a child.

“Dion is a sexual predator who deeply impacted the lives of his community, by merging ordinary photos of local children into images of child pornography. He will now spend the next twelve and a half years of his wretched life locked up in a cage where he belongs,” Acting United States Attorney John Sarcone said.

In addition to prison, Dion was ordered to pay restitution to the victims, totaling $105,000, forfeit all devices and register as a sex offender upon his release from prison. He will also be required to serve a 20-year probation sentence.

“There is zero tolerance for those who prey on children, and this sentencing reflects the severity of these crimes,” New York State Police Superintendent Steven James said.

The case, investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and New York State Police, was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Wentworth-Ping.