Perv Twist, Laura Italiano, New York Post, February 9, 2009

"Perv" Twist

By Laura Italiano
New York Post
February 9, 2009

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02092009/news/regionalnews/perv_twist_154189.htm

'OCCASIONAL' HASID

2 FACES: David Silverman in court and on his Facebook page as "King Dingling."

2 FACES: David Silverman in court and (above) on his Facebook page as "King Dingling."

A Hasidic Jew indicted on shocking kiddie-porn and child-rape charges claims he's too religious to even look at the grotesque photographic evidence against him.

The 23-year-old Rockland County man is due in a Manhattan court today to seek bail. If convicted, he could go to jail for as many years as he's lived.

Prosecutors say David Silverman and two buddies - both now fugitives in Israel - used MySpace to lure three girls, ages 14 and 15, from their Westchester County homes to nightclub-style porn set near the Javits Center in March 2007.

Once there, the men allegedly plied the girls with alcohol and filmed the resulting orgy.

"The worst part is, we have no idea if these pictures - and there's video, too - are still out there," one source said

Raised in a Hasidic family upstate, Silverman left home in his teens, shaved his hair, tattooed his body, pierced both ears multiple times, and joined the sex- and drug-drenched rave and trance music scene.

The girls knew him only as David or his online names, "DJ Rings" and "King Dingling." By the time cops found him, his two friends had fled the country, the illegal "dance club" on 34th Street had been dismantled, and his computer's hard drive was wiped clean.

Or so Silverman thought.

Three days into jury selection last month, prosecutors resurrected a series of triple-X photos implicating Silverman and his two alleged accomplices.

Silverman has insisted he never touched the girls.

On the strength of the new evidence, Silverman, who had returned to the Hasidic lifestyle and moved to Spring Valley, was tossed into jail in lieu of $50,000 bail on charges of child pornography and statutory rape.

Now, he is refusing to discuss anything to do with the charges or look at the evidence "for religious reasons," says his lawyer, Israel Fried.

"He was 21 at the time, and the girls were 14, 15, but did not represent themselves as such," Fried claimed.

Contact: laura.italiano@nypost.com