NY- A Queens man threatened to kill his wife and her family unless she posed in sick sex positions, prosecutors said yesterday. Then, unbeknown to her, he allegedly posted the sordid photos over the Internet, inviting viewers to rape her.
“Someone Googled her name at work and all this awful stuff showed up,” Assistant District Attorney Todd Komisky told a judge. “Pornographic sexual things were all over the Internet.”
Thomas Gillen, 43, a college recruiter from Rockaway Park, was charged in January with reckless endangerment for posting the photos. He was charged yesterday with threatening his wife if she cooperated with law enforcement.
“The e-mail[s] were sent to random strangers with the message, ‘I have a fantasy of being raped. I want to be raped,'” said Komisky, adding that Gillen gave his wife’s name, work address and other information. “The complaining witness was extremely distressed and frightened.”
Gillen was released without bail after the initial charges, but then a search warrant turned up what prosecutors called more incriminating e-mails – this time threatening his wife if she cooperated.
“I will strike and that is the main lesson of this day,” he allegedly wrote in an e-mail. “Suicide is not an option. Kill yourself and I will kill every member of your family everywhere.”
Gillen pleaded not guilty yesterday, and his attorney referred to the pictures as evidence that Gillen’s wife was not coerced.
“She’s not being forced, she’s not resisting, she has a smile on her face in these pictures,” the lawyer, Robert DiDio, said. “It was her fantasy to have these on the Internet.”
Gillen is facing up to four years in prison and is being held on $150,000 bail.
