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Former Hamburg cop with prison past arrested again

Published:March 3, 2010, 7:43 AM

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Updated: August 21, 2010, 4:55 AM

George A. Adymy, the former Town of Hamburg police officer who spent a year in federal prison on a child pornography conviction, recently dropped off a gift for a teenage girl outside her Buffalo home — a cologne- soaked teddy bear, Buffalo police say.

He then repeatedly texted and called her to let her know that the teddy bear was from him.

The 51-year-old Adymy, who lost his job as a Hamburg police officer because of the 2005 child porn conviction, refused to stop staying in touch with the 16-year-old, despite a court order of protection banning him from contacting her.

His legal problems — which now include new charges ranging from child endangerment and selling marijuana to violating orders of protection — do not stop with this girl, according to police.

Adymy was arrested last weekend after South District officers caught him with two other 16-year-old girls at his apartment in the 100 block of Cantwell Drive. Police noticed a bag of marijuana and a glass pipe they said was in plain view.

They had gone to his apartment to investigate reports of his involvement with teenage girls — some of whom he had met through his two daughters, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

When Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III was asked about sexual overtures involving the teenager who received the teddy bear from Adymy, the DA said:

“Assuming the allegations are proven to be true in a court of law, the fact that a man would leave a teddy bear on a teenage girl’s doorstep soaked with his cologne and repeatedly call and text her, leads one to the conclusion that it was the defendant’s desire to have some kind of sexual relationship or encounter with that teenage girl,” Sedita said.

Of Adymy’s alleged contact with the other girls, the DA added, “Mr. Adymy is not exactly the kind of man that a father of teenage girls would like to see at his doorstep.” Adymy was granted what many considered a major break in federal court when he was sentenced to only a year in prison for possessing child pornography, rather than a term of more than three years, as recommended under advisory sentencing guidelines.

Now authorities say there are other disturbing allegations involving Adymy. In addition to the three 16-year-olds, he allegedly has violated another court order directing him to stay away from a 17-year-old girl. Police say he has repeatedly continued to call that teenager. He has also been noticed in front of a Buffalo high school where school staff members have seen teenage girls getting into his car and driving away with him.

Authorities also say he has either sold or given marijuana to teenage girls on numerous occasions.

In the incident involving the teenager who received the teddy bear, police say that on several occasions he either sold or provided her with marijuana and then smoked it with her.

In that case, he has been charged with a felony count for violating the court order of protection, in addition to charges of criminal sale of marijuana and endangering the welfare of a child.

Concerning the two other 16-year-olds police found in his apartment, he has been charged with child endangerment and unlawful possession of marijuana.

And with the 17-year-old, he was charged with misdemeanor aggravated harassment for violating that court order of protection.

After he was arrested last weekend, Adymy asked officers if they could give him a break. Police refused and took him to the Erie County Holding Center, where he later was released on bail.

Though no longer on federal probation, Adymy remains on local probation for a conviction of driving while intoxicated from last year when he slammed his car into another vehicle and a guardrail on the Thruway in West Seneca. Given these newest charges, Sedita said, probation officials have the power to revoke Adymy’s probation. When that occurs, the individual is generally taken into custody.

After Adymy was arrested in January 2009 for DWI, he was brought before U. S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, who ordered him into a program of treatment for alcohol abuse. At that time, Arcara still had jurisdiction over Adymy, who was finishing up three years of probation that the judge previously imposed to follow the year in prison.

Adymy apologized for his drunken behavior, but that was not the first time he offered an apology in Arcara’s courtroom.

In May 2005, at his federal sentencing for possession of child pornography, a tearful Adymy said to Arcara, “I’m sorry for everything I did. I’m sorry for the shame I brought my family. I’m a changed man.”

Adymy is scheduled to return to Buffalo City Court on Thursday. South District police involved in arresting him include Lts. Joseph A. Fahey and John D. Rieman and Officers Charles J. Clifford, Kevin M. Kennedy and Thomas A. McCarthy.

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