Edward De Sear, a former partner at Allen & Overy and Bingham McCutchen, was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to federal child pornography and sex trafficking charges.
In admitting to the crimes of which he is accused, the 67-year-old resident of Saddle River, N.J., acknowledged sexually molesting a 6-year-old boy in a Brussels hotel room in June 2011 after arranging for the youth to travel there from Paris, according to a press release and superseding information disclosed Thursday afternoon by the U.S. attorney’s office in Newark.
