Torrington Man Sentenced For Sexual Exploitation Of 3 Teen Girls

Thursday, July 3, 2025, 7:45 A.M. ET. 3 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,

HARTFORD, CT.- Last Friday, a 23-year-old Torrington, Connecticut, man, and a serial child sexual predator learned he will be nearly fifty years old when he gets out of federal prison, after being sentenced for the sexual exploitation of three teen girls, including the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl, the enticement and sexual assault of another 16-year-old girl, and the production of child pornography involving a 17-year-old girl.

     According to U.S. Attorney David X. Sullivan, on Friday, June 27, 2025, Christopher Jesus Constanzo, 23, of Torrington, Connecticut, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Alvin W. Thompson to 300 months in federal prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release for his previously entered guilty plea to a federal sexual exploitation of a child offense.

     Constanzo, who has remained in custody since his December 2, 2021, arrest, previously appeared in Federal Court in Hartford, Connecticut, on February 22, 2025, and pleaded guilty to Production of Child Pornography. Constanzo still faces Connecticut State charges in connection with the sexual assaults of the three teenage girls.

According To Court Documents

     According to court documents and statements made in the District Court, on December 2, 2021, just shortly before 7:30 a.m., Constanzo and a 16-year-old female arrived by car at the U.S. Port of Entry at Highgate Springs, Vermont.  Just before their arrival, Border Officials at the St-Armand/Philipsburg Border Crossing in Canada had refused Constanzo and the minor victim entry into Canada.  

Constanzo Kidnaps And Rapes Teenage Girl

     After U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers separated Constanzo from the teenage girl, she reported that she had met Constanzo the night before at Stillwater Pond State Park in Torrington, Connecticut.  Constanzo then sexually assaulted the girl, forced her into the trunk of her car, restrained her with a shoelace, and began driving.  

     At some point during the night, Constanzo removed the teenage girl from the trunk and sexually assaulted her again.  As they neared the Canadian border, Constanzo had the girl sit in the front passenger seat of the car.  Constanzo instructed her to “act normal” and “go along with the story.”  Constanzo then told Canadian Border Services Agency officials that the minor victim was his sister and they intended to go into Canada for four days to visit friends.  However, due to their lack of COVID tests, Constanzo and the minor victim were denied entry into Canada.  Constanzo was arrested by CBP on December 2, 2021.

Constanzo Threatens Teen Girl, Then Rapes Her

     In July 2021, Constanzo used the Instant Messaging application, Snapchat to coerce a 16-year-old girl to go to an abandoned warehouse in Torrington, Connecticut, to record herself having sex with Constanzo, and, posing as two fictitious individuals on Snapchat, he threatened to kill the minor victim and kill her boyfriend if she did not comply.  At the warehouse, Constanzo sexually assaulted the minor victim at knifepoint.

     Also in July 2021, Constanzo used his iPhone to record sexually explicit FaceTime videos of a 17-year-old girl.

     U.S. Attorney Sullivan thanked the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont and the State’s Attorney for the Litchfield Judicial District for their assistance in the investigation and prosecution of this matter.