NYPD cop Timothy Martinez convicted on child porn charges

Suspended NYPD cop Timothy Martinez was convicted Wednesday of seeking out kiddy porn on Twitter — about a week after federal prosecutors played a recording for jurors in which he admitted paying a young girl for a sex video.

The 43-year-old creepy cop also allegedly had hundreds of pictures of child porn on two laptops seized by the feds during their investigation.

A jury decided after a week-long trial in Brooklyn federal court that Martinez was guilty on each of the four charges he faced, including attempted receipt of child pornography, two counts of sexual exploitation and attempted sexual exploitation of a minor, according to the feds.

He faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison. It was not immediately clear when he would be sentenced.

“The jury found that the defendant not only violated the trust of the public that he was sworn to serve, but specifically victimized vulnerable children for years,” Breon Peace, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement.

“Instead of using his position as a member of the NYPD to protect children, he shamefully gained the trust of minors in order to sexually exploit them,” he continued.

During the trial, prosecutors said Martinez participated in live video sex chats with two girls, one of whom had been treated for a brain tumor, prosecutors said.

In June 2018, the Staten Island native also tried get several kiddy porn videos from someone he thought was underage.

On a 2019 recording that the feds played in court, Martinez told investigators from Homeland Security that he’d paid a Twitter user named Myiaa about $50 for a video of the teen girl masturbating.

She sent him the clip through the platform’s direct messaging service. But he claimed he broke off the relationship when he “found out it was a little girl.”

“I ended it with Myiaa,” he said on tape, although he could not remember whether he bought one or two videos. “I made a mistake, I’m sorry.”

Authorities arrested Martinez, a US Army Reservist, in February.

The feds said he had about 600 images of child sexual abuse stored on his home laptop. And he had more secreted away on another laptop that he handed to federal investigators.

Martinez’s defense attorney, Peter Brill, claimed the sickening images could have come from any one of the dozens — if not hundreds — of soldiers with whom Martinez shared the computer during stints at military bases in Iraq, Afghanistan and Romania.

But the jury did not bite.

Martinez had been listed as being on paid extended leave from the department. It wasn’t immediately clear how the verdict would affect his employement.

“Our police officers have a sworn duty to protect, but this defendant betrayed that oath and preyed upon some of the most at-risk members of our community,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell Sewell said in the statement sent out by the US Attorney’s Office Wednesday.

“Such reprehensible behavior is wholly unacceptable of anyone, especially a member of law enforcement.”