Paul-Alexander Lejas, Contributing Photographer

The Yale Police Department officer arrested for possessing child sexual abuse material has been released from federal custody, but is barred from leaving Connecticut.

Otilio Green was arrested on Friday by State Police troopers and charged with a state-level count of possession of child sexual abuse material — pornographic images and videos of children under 14 years old — following a joint state-federal investigation which linked his mobile account to the uploaded explicit files. After bonding out of State Police custody that day, Green was immediately detained by agents from the federal Homeland Security Investigations task force. On Monday, the Justice Department formally charged Green with possessing and receiving child pornography.

After Green’s Friday arrest, he was placed on paid administrative leave by the YPD and barred from entering the University’s campus, a Yale spokesperson wrote on Monday.

At a detention hearing on Tuesday, a federal judge in Bridgeport set Green’s bond at $200,000 and granted Green’s motion to be released from custody, per online federal court records.

On Friday, a federal prosecutor filed a motion to keep Green in pretrial detention. The motion argued that the nature of the child exploitation charges and the weight of the evidence against Green made it such that “no condition or combination of conditions of release will reasonably assure the safety of any other person and the community.” Each of Green’s federal charges carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years.

Green’s attorney filed an opposing motion on Monday to release Green from custody. The lawyer proposed that Green would live in his father’s home in West Haven, and that his father, retired, would “supervise” him. The motion noted that a home visit had been conducted and that probation officers had  confirmed that Green’s father’s home is “not hooked up to the Internet.”

The motion suggested that Green’s wife, aunt and cousin serve as bond “co-signers” with Green’s father. Co-signers are responsible for ensuring that the accused individual appears in court; if they do not, they are financially responsible for the $200,000 bond.

Green’s attorney proposed that the bond package include home detention with GPS monitoring, supervised family visits, restricting travel outside of the state, surrendering Green’s passport and prohibiting internet access with the exception of one device. That device’s internet usage would be monitored by probation officers. The proposed bond package also included mental health treatment with a psychologist at the federal public defenders’ office.

The judge agreed to release Green, but under tighter conditions. Instead of home detention, which would allow Green to leave his residence for employment, religious, educational or medical reasons, Green was released from custody on the condition of home incarceration. Home incarceration restricts him to “24-hour-a-day lockdown” with the exceptions of medical necessities, court appearances and “activities specifically approved by the court.” The order clears Green to leave his residence for mental health treatment.

On top of the conditions proposed by his attorney, Green’s release conditions specify that he must avoid “any contact with children under age of 18 or loiter[ing] around any area where they are known to congregate.”

Green will attend his next bond hearing on May 6.

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ARIELA LOPEZ
Ariela Lopez covers Cops and Courts for the City Desk and lays out the weekly print paper as a Production & Design editor. She previously covered City Hall. Ariela is a sophomore in Branford College, originally from New York City.