A civil suit accuses the 39-year-old married man of helping finance an online child-sex ring and develop its Web site to attract international customers. Victims told authorities he had left them pained, depressed and unable to trust men.
But friends call the Columbia University graduate a brilliant man of high character, and a defense psychotherapist said he is not a sexual predator.
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