A federal judge just threw the book at a school bus driver from Tampa, Florida, who engaged in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a male student.
35-year-old William Napolitano will spend the rest of his life locked away in prison after being found guilty in federal court of sexually assaulting a minor and producing and distributing child pornography.
In August, Napolitano, who had worked for the school system for over a decade, pleaded guilty to coercing a minor into engaging in sexual activity back in 2014. The minor was a 15-year-old male student Napolitano met on Grindr.
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Napolitano engaged the student in a sexual relationship which went on for several years. Officials said during that time, Napolitano invited the student to view his collection of child pornography, invited him to watch live productions of child pornography on the internet, and invited him to engage in group sex with other adults and minors.
Napolitano also produced and distributed child pornography of the student, according to the plea agreement.
Court documents paint Napolitano out to seem like quite a predator, describing him as having a deep-seated lust for minors that “descended to depths of depravity that are hard to fathom and that he’s a constant threat to society.”
According to investigators, Napolitano had an ally in Pasco County assistant principal, Kyle Ritsema, with whom he would share child porn. Ritsema currently faces 30 years behind bars.
Napolitano’s attorney, John Traveno, expressed extreme disappointment with his client’s life sentence this week.
“This man (Napolitano) had engaged in substantial cooperation with the federal government,” he said after the sentencing. “He pled guilty early in the case, so what is his reward? The maximum? It’s just not fair.”
LoverofBeauty
If you like teenage boys, don’t work around them.
You set the whole movement back when you lose control of your passions.
QueerTruth
Dude. It’s way beyond that.
This man raped a child on his own school bus (grindr contact or not), showed the kid child porn, made his own child porn, and had the boy engage in group sex.
He should never see the light of day.
jkthsnk
Ephebophilia is not the same as being gay.
twinkfan
If you refuse to believe that many, many, many gay men like Twinky, barely legal, hairless boys, then you are clearly deluding yourself.
Youth and beauty are treated as accomplishments in our World, and young and old men alike lust after boys who could easily pass for 15 years old.
On the other hand, research has shown that straight men fine teenage girls as the most attractive, so I suspect that attraction to late teens is a biological imperative and desire for fertility.
Chrisk
@twinkfan. Barely legal is code for underage and I hope their busted when they give in to their lust. Anyone obsessed with teens that’s not within 5 years of their age is sick in the head.
kingelijah.ernst
@QueerTruth – this guy raped no one. He had a long-term, unforced relationship with a person who lied about their age and was old enough to be prosecuted for anything, easily as an adult. Get a grip. If this person, old enough to be prosecuted for anything and easily as an adult, produced and viewed child pornography, said person should be held accountable.
A 15 year old is not a child. Says any state that gladly will prosecuted a 14 year old as an adult. And that is all of them.
Vince
@kingelijah.ernst. Trying a child as an adult is very controversial and rarely applied. A 15 year old is a child and incapable of consent. I’m sure you’ll find somebody that agrees with you though. Maybe nambla. Lol
QueerTruth
kingelijah.ernst
I’m sad to see that you do not think a group of child molesters who make and distribute child porn are not child molesters. The fact these they are principals and school bus drivers doesn’t affect your assessment is pathetic and subhuman of you. But that’s your twisted mind. Luckily the law doesn’t see it that way nor do most decent humans. You need to see a counselor.
Chrisk
Terrible as in what not to do when you have a receding hairline. You’re fooling no one.
Rock-N-RollHS
I hooked up with the security guard when i was 15 in h.s. It was hot.
IanHunter
A teacher for me.
Harley
Yea. I hooked up with a school counselor when I was in 6th grade (13) and enjoyed it but he should have known better. He was the adult.
Chrisk
At 13 he definitely raped you. No way can a 13 yo give any kind of concent.
kingelijah.ernst
@Chrisk – if, at 13, you touch your younger cousin’s vayjayjay or penis, you are a sex offender for the rest of your life. Because at 13 you definitely are deemed to know what you are doing when it comes to sex. Funny how that goes….
Lacuevaman
my first ejaculation from a blowjob was thru a glory hole in the Greyhound bus station in Perry, Georgia. my sister (she was nine) and I (12 at that time) were riding the bus to visit our grandfather in Jacksonville, FL. after boarding the bus, we found out it was going to be delayed for another 30 minutes. i had my sister stay on the bus and I went back in for another.. the man was in his 30’s and dressed in a suit. he also tongued my hole thru the GH. hot hot hot! i definitely consented to that!
Chrisk
Wow. They really gave it to him good. Getting the kid involved with the child porn was the final straw I’m sure.
Sounds like he sang like a canary as well. Turning his pal principal over to save his ass. Ha.
QueerTruth
Good. It”s honestly the worst type of crime anyone can commit.
He will not survive a life sentence nor will the principal for 30 years.
kingelijah.ernst
Personally, I find same sex sex more offensive than sex with a 15 year old of any gender…..
Vince
@kingelijah.ernst. So let me get this right. You find same sex attraction disgusting but you’re a okay with child sex. Are you a Catholic priest? 🙂
Phil
This guy is a peadophile monster, who deserves to rot in prison…. but I’m wondering why this post is on Queerty? Is this case of specific interest to the LGBTQ+ community, and if so… why? Or is this simply another instance of someone confusing peadiphilia with homosexuality?
kingelijah.ernst
This guy is neither a peadophile nor a monster. Look up the definition of both, I beg of you….
Bob LaBlah
Ok, looking at gurl’s eyes its clear she is no saint. However, I am ALSO looking at the FACT that this “kid” was on Grindr, which makes me wonder just how “innocent” this little twink really is.
HereIAm
Whether this teenager is innocent is irrelevant. He is a minor who, like many at his age, is confused and gullible. They don’t really know what they want or their sexual orientation. Any adult who takes advantage of an unsuspecting teenager is just a sick animal. This deranged individual deserved to be locked away for the rest of his life.
Bob LaBlah
I think this kid isn’t as innocent as you, the public, would like to believe. He created a fake persona knowing he was underage and no doubt lied about his age when he hooked up with guys online. He was well aware of the types of sex he was being asked to participate in and for all we know at this time it might have been him who contacted this drugged out ass queen who went for it. Tumblr and other such sites have THOUSANDS of young boys online who put those videos up on those sites themselves. I just don’t believe these kids are as innocent as they are presumed to be. Too much was involved for them to be able to get away with sitting in a courtroom and claiming youthful ignorance. I no longer buy that shit. They know damn well what they are doing and thats why they do it.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Looks like 15 will get you 20 doesn’t apply in this one…..
kingelijah.ernst
@HereIAm – same gullible teenager would be sentenced to life without parole in adult prison if he had been coerced, manipulated, even threatened to, say, be the lookout for a gas station robber gone south – even if he were nowhere near the actual site. Same unsuspecting teenager, or 12 year old, who touched his younger sister, would be a sex offender for the rest of his sad life. A 15 year old who goes trawling for same sex sex partners on a web site where he has to confirm he is over 18 us hardly an unsuspecting teenager. Spare me your “poor children” drivel….
HereIAm
You seem so hell bent to incriminate a 15-year-old while saying absolutely nothing about the creepy sex crazed pedophile. My point is, even if the teenager is not totally innocent, he is still a minor. I am not justifying his creating a fake account on the hookup app, but his action is largely forgivable because he is a minor.
Snicky
@thinking…Not for me give me a thick hairy man with a beard any day!
dannysax
I tend to agree with Bob LaBlah on this one. At 15 I knew exactly what I wanted to do sexually and had been doing it for at least a year with my older cousin. Especially this generation of adolescents get savvy about sex a lot earlier than previous ones did. I wish I had opportunities to do stuff with hot older studs, but I lived in a rather conservative area of Texas and never met any like that. I did develop three same-age sucking partners though, and we played until we were both 17 and 18. As an adult I had a very good friend who was a military kid and moved around a lot with his dad to different bases, and he said starting at 14 he was giving BJs to all the soldiers he met on base, lucky guy! Now if one goes to Europe, you will undoubtedly meet adolescents trying to get your favors in countries like the Netherlands, as well as some Asian countries (Thailand). So if anyone has this ephebophilia, don’t do it in the U.S.!
kingelijah.ernst
Ephebophilia is not a thing / disorder. If it were, most states in the US would allow / endorse it.
Ed
So, I only clicked because life in Prison seemed a harsh punishment for hooking up with a 15 year old he met on Grindr. Not excusing it if it were only that but it would seem the punishment did not quite fit the crime. As usual, Queerty wrote the headline to entice people to click on the article and read it so they can get more advertisers.
The punishment most definitely fits the crime and shame on you Queerty for yet another example of clickbait. No one would have read your article had you mentioned he used the kid to produce child pornography or any of his other crimes.
nhcoastguy
The kid is not always the victim, but the predator. Many years ago, (before internet) when you actually in print posted a personal ad, I replied to one.
Poster claimed to be 21 and was seeking dates/relationship with older guys.
I wrote back and he responded (remember, snail mail). We met up a couple times, simply cuddling and no real sex. One night I brought him back to his car, parked where he worked. He said “SHIT, what is she doing here?” His mother, as I stopped at his car, He bolted out as she screeched in and blocked me. She was yelling for police in this parking lot and accusing me of raping her son. I did not confront or say anything, just waited for PD.
Interviewed by cop in the cruiser, and he said he would check things out and expect a call. Next day got a call from detective that said my story checked out, squeeky clean and no record whatsoever. The other however, he told me had a record “a foot thick” and they would be bringing HIM in for more questioning. Said case was closed on my end and no worries. Just cautioned me to be more careful in the future. Thank You!! Turned out he was 16 and had a VERY good fake ID, so much so that couple months later I was on a date at a gay dance club and guess who was there! Mentioned to my date, who offered to foot stomp him on the dance floor. Nah, shit comes around.
Next month, saw him at another club and working as a barback! This time I stepped in. As my company sponsored their float in the pride parades, I knew and was connected with upper management. Pointed twinkie out and said to check deeper as he “might” be 17 at that time at oldest. Don’t think you want to lose your liquor license if inspector comes in? Never saw the little bitch there or anywhere ever again.
Like I said, not all of the “boys” are victims, but entrapping predators.
Vince
It’s your job as the adult to make sure they’re of age. A 16 year old is going to look very young. That should have been enough for you to check his ID.
Bob LaBlah
Your story sounds fabricated. Sixteen years old, his mother present, and they didnt take the kid to the hospital and have him examined? They let you walk after a screaming mother called the police and reported her son had been raped and the perpetrator was still there? Sorry, I can’t buy that.
Kangol
Your story sounds both odd and extremely creepy; you couldn’t tell you were with a 16-year-old? And the cops let you off like that, with the child’s mother there? I don’t care how extensive his record was, it seems really strange that cops would let an adult man off after cavorting with a teenager. Were you just a few years older, like 17 or 18? On top of all of this, you’re attacking the victim, and saying zilch about the fact that the nutso-looking pedophile pictured above was sharing child porn and videos of live child porn with this teenager, as well as videos of this kid, in addition to exchanging child porn with a colleague! Did you miss all of that? Is that OK with you? Seriously?
rand503
Sorry, but there are murderers who get lighter sentences. I agree he should be put away, as he is guilty. But life sentence is way out of whack.
batesmotel
True, this seems to be common amongst adults both male and female that work with younger people, for some reason they end up sleeping with them too. They also get in trouble, but they keep doing it.
Bob3007
I realize a 35 yo and a 15 yo doesn’t constitute legal consensual sex, however i do love the fact the 15 yo kid was on grindr, lied to be there and played the game and he suffers or bares no responsibility for what happened because he’s some poor young innocent helpless minor ? ( oh a gmafb by the way) when i was 8-9 yo i knew what cabbage patch i wanted to put my pickle in and by 15 it was in full swing. And that was the 70’s with no internet or anything to connect. These “ kids” today are a far cry from my generation they know everything these days and NO it doesn’t make it right but this 15 yo should have some repercussions as well.
Billy Budd
Why is queerty deleting everything I write? I repeat, I repeat, the age of consent in Brazil is FOURTEEN. I will repeat this mere fact of our legislation as many times as necessary, until you don’t delete it anymore.
ivanw222
I’m certainly not standing up for this driver, he played with fire, and he is going to burn for it! However, what was this child doing on Grindr?