A Brooklyn-based Goth website already linked to several gruesome crimes is baring its fangs again after charges a Park Slope man convinced an under-aged girl on the site to send him naked pics.
Raymond Kochonies posed as a 16-year-old girl named “Buffy” on Vampirefreaks.com and contacted the San Pablo, Calif. teenager in June, a Brooklyn federal court complaint alleges.
When she refused to send him nude pictures, Kochonies allegedly threatened to harm the teen. He eventually convinced her to send more than 100 graphic images of herself through texts and e-mails, papers state.
When the tormented girl refused to fulfill certain twisted requests, Kochonies threatened to splash her nude pictures all over the Internet, court papers state.
“Please just leave me alone,” she begged in one e-mail. “This has been going on long over a month and I want it to stop…please leave me alone!”
But Kochonies simply demanded more images and ratcheted up the menacing, court papers state.
When she refused to keep sending the perverted snaps Kochonies would threaten to “just put the pics up,” according to the complaint.
“In an attempt to keep ‘Buffy’ from posting nude photographs of her on the internet, the victim continued to send ‘Buffy’ nude photos of herself,” the complaint states.
The desperate teen finally went to California investigators who tracked down “Buffy” at his Park Slope home last month.
Kochonies was released on $300,000 bond and is scheduled in Brooklyn federal court Friday.
His attorney, David Levine, said he is still gathering information on the case.
Founded in 1999 by Brooklyn native Jethro Berelson, Vampirefreaks became wildly popular with Goth fans and led the owner to open up an East Village novelty store of the same name that has since shuttered.
Berelson has had to defend the site in the wake of several grisly crimes that have links to the Vampirefreaks message boards.
A Long Island man tried to set up a cemetery sex tryst with an undercover Suffolk County cop posing as a 13-year old girl on the site in 2006 — just weeks after he was busted for bedding another underaged girl he met on the same message boards.
Assisted by a 23-year-old man she met on the site, a 12-year-old girl took part in the vicious 2006 slaughter of her parents and eight year old brother in Canada.
Jasmine Richardson and Jeremy Steinke were both convicted of murder in 2007.
Because of her age, Richardson was given the maximum sentence allowable under Canadian law – 10 years – while Steinke is serving life in prison.
The site was also linked to the killing of a 12-year-old boy in Toronto in 2003. A girl involved in the attack frequently posted to vampirefreaks professing an affinity for blood and cemeteries.
“My general reaction is that its silly to even suggest that the site is to blame for violent crimes,” Berelson said in an interview on the site.