(WETM) — A Waverly man has been arrested on federal charges following an investigation into the report of someone making and sharing indecent material of a child under 10, according to a release from the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York and the FBI.

Tristan Kovacs, 21, of Waverly, was arrested on Thursday, August 7, on the charges of sexual exploitation of a child, and transportation of child pornography, as stated in the release.

Kovacs is accused of taking a sexually explicit image of himself and a nine-year-old girl in April 2025 and later uploading said image to a pornographic website where he would then profit from other users on the website, the release explained. The release stated that the pornographic website reported Kovacs' image that he uploaded, whi

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