KEW GARDENS — A 38-year-old van driver, who drives children to school, has been charged with initiating and conducting ongoing sexually explicit conversations online with an undercover detective he believed was a 14-year-old girl from Queens, the Queens district attorney said.
Elliot Provda, of Manhattan, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court Dec. 5 for the attempted dissemination of indecent material to minors and the attempted endangering the welfare of a child, the DA said.
The defendant is an independent delivery man contracted by several families to take their children, aged 6 to 13, to and from a private school in Manhattan, according to the DA’s office.
Provda allegedly sent the undercover detective messages that were graphic and sexual in nature, which included an invitation to meet for sexual activity in Queens, said the DA.
The defendant will next appear in court Dec. 23 and could face up to four years in prison if convicted, according to the DA.
