A youth basketball coach who ran a sports program out of a Brooklyn Catholic school paid teenage boys in the program to perform in pornographic videos, then sold those videos on the internet, federal prosecutors allege.

Michael Jafferakos, 26, used the basketball program, which was not named in court proceedings, to groom victims starting in middle school, then get them to record videos that he shared with an accomplice via Telegram, prosecutors said. And, in one instance, his accomplice specifically directed Jafferakos to get a video from a boy featured on the basketball program’s Instagram account, prosecutors allege.

“This case is a teen parent’s worst nightmare,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Kaitlin Farrell said at Jafferakos’ Brooklyn Federal Court arraignment Thursday.

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