Crime & Safety

John Wolf, NYC Dentist, Outs Himself As Child and Animal Sex Fanatic: FBI

The FBI is reportedly worried Wolf may have abused some of his underage patients.


A middle-aged New York City dentist with an established practice in Chelsea was arrested at his home Friday morning and hauled down to Brooklyn federal court on a series of disturbing drug-dealing and child-porn charges, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn.

John Wolf, 59, is charged with ”conspiring to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession and distribution of child pornography,” according to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

The full criminal complaint against Wolf, provided to Patch by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, is a deeply unsettling look into the mind of an alleged child and animal sex fanatic who — according to an extensive FBI investigation — also admitted to abusing his adult sexual partners.

Investigators are now reportedly questioning whether any of Wolf’s underage patients could have been abused or videotaped during their dentist’s appointments.

“If you have information regarding this case, or you believe you or a family member may have been a victim, please contact the FBI at (212) 384-5000,” the DOJ said in a statement.

Wolf first came onto the FBI’s radar when another man, Wolf’s alleged meth supplier, was arrested at JFK and converted into an FBI informant, the complaint says.

The anonymous informant allegedly told FBI investigators that:

  • He and Wolf did meth together in Wolf’s Chelsea dental office
  • Wolf had showed him cellphone pics of infants and toddlers being raped by adult men
  • Wolf admitted he was HIV positive and sometimes poked holes in condoms so as to spread the disease
  • Wolf admitted he was ”actively involved in underground sex parties at various locations in New York City, including in Brooklyn, where participants would engage in sexual intercourse with animals”

Later, in conversations allegedly recorded by the informant in Wolf’s dental office this October and November, Wolf admitted to the following, according to the FBI.

  • Wold continued to consume and distribute methamphetamine
  • Wold continued to have sex with animals
  • Wolf had once drugged a sexual partner, an adult male, with “booty bumps” and ”blood slams” of ketamine, then raped the man
  • Wolf continued to collect child porn, and was interested in obtaining more

An FBI agent then posed as the informant’s roommate and pretended to share Wolf’s interest in child porn in order to get more information out of him, according to the complaint.

In recorded conversations with the undercover agent, Wolf allegedly admitted he’d used the basement of his dental office for “sex parties.”

He then whipped out a flash drive in the presence of the FBI agent, according to the complaint, and proceeded to play child-porn videos on a ”large display screen” at his office for more than half an hour.

“The child pornography depicted young girls, ranging in approximate age of 5-13, engaging in sexual acts with other children and adults,” the complaint says.

The FBI agent reported that Wolf could be heard ”audibly moan[ing]” while the videos played.

Wolf then allegedly gifted another flash drive to the agent, containing 22 child-porn videos. Three of the videos, described in the court complaint in sickening detail, allegedly depict toddlers as young as two years old being raped by adults.

Wolf was arraigned in Brooklyn federal court on Friday afternoon.

The judge overseeing his case has requested that Wolf be permanently detained until his trial date, “because he represents a danger to the community and because he is a significant flight risk.”


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