Manhattan Babysitter Who Raped Kids Sentenced To 100 Years

MURRAY HILL, NY — A Manhattan babysitter convicted of raping two children was sentenced on Friday to 100 years to life in state prison, prosecutors said.

Milton Narvaez was convicted in November of 98 counts related to abusing and molesting two young children, according to the Manhattan district attorney's office. His sentence means that he won't be eligible for parole until he's served 100 years, effectively sentencing the 36-year-old to die behind bars.

Narvaez worked as a babysitter for multiple families in Manhattan after meeting them through his job as a janitor at the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church, at 630 Second Ave. Narvaez, who also went by the name Milton Gomez, repeatedly raped the child he babysat and even recorded some of these assaults, prosecutors said. He would sometimes use the sick footage to create montages of photos and videos set to music, according to the investigation. He began sexually abusing the child in 2008 when the victim was six years old. The abuse continued for six years while Narvaez was paid to take care of the child.

In a separate incident in October 2011, Narvaez sexually abused a different child in the storage room of the church.

Narvaez was first arrested in 2015 after a routine investigation into the spread of images and videos of children being sexually assaulted uncovered videos in which Narvaez himself was abusing children. At the time, prosecutors said that Narvaez had worked as a babysitter and a nanny for multiple families and that they believed he might have abused other, unidentified children.

It took a jury less than an hour to find Narvaez guilty of the dozens of crimes he was charged with in November.

"There are few acts more horrific than the long-term sexual abuse of a child," District Attorney Cy Vance said last year. "As a babysitter and custodian with access to children, Milton Narvaez abused his position to rape two children, before further exploiting them by recording video of the acts."

Image credit: Courtesy of the Manhattan District Attorney's office