Davie Boy Scout volunteer arrested for child porn

A two-year Boy Scout volunteer has been booked into the Broward Sheriff Main Jail on 75 counts of possession of child pornography. With his easy access to young children, detectives want to know if his perversion ever went beyond the computer screen.

Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives with the South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force were conducting an undercover operation when Gary Morano, 65, from Davie appeared on their radar. The investigation provided details about a rental building owned by Morano, where he kept a computer with a portable hard drive that contained pornographic images of children.

BSO detectives obtained a warrant to search the property and found the computer and hard drive containing at least 75 images of children between 6 and 10 years of age in sexually suggestive positions, exposing their private areas and in sexual acts with adults. Morano was taken into custody without incident at his Davie home. He admitted being the sole user of the computer and knowingly being in possession of the images, but said he never had physical contact with a child. BSO detectives want to confirm his assertion.

Since March 2008, Morano has been a volunteer Boy Scout Leader and Assistant Scoutmaster with Troop 183.

Anyone with information, or who believes they have been a victim of Morano, should contact BSO ICAC Detective Jennifer Montgomery at or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS or www.browardcrimestopppers.org.

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Posted by Andrea Freygang on Jul 20 2010. Filed under Broward County, Crime, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Local news. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry