4-year sentence for West Haven man in Snapchat sex assault

BRIDGEPORT — A 22-year-old West Haven man was sentenced Friday to four years in prison for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old city girl he met on Snapchat.

“When I get out, I’m going to try to do my best,” Andre Gordon told Superior Court Judge Kevin Russo.

“You were a manipulative young man,” the judge replied. “You were cold and calculated to satisfy your own urges and there are consequences to pay.”

Russo sentenced Gordon, of Dogburn Road, who had previously pleaded guilty to fourthdegree sexual assault and risk of injury to a child, to 10 years, suspended after he serves four years in prison and followed by 10 years of probation.

The judge also ordered Gordon to register as a sex offender.

Gordon had initially been charged with first-degree sexual assault, risk of injury to a child and enticing a minor through a computer, but Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Tatiana Messina told the judge her office agreed to reduce the charges after speaking with the victim and her mother.

The victim’s lawyer, Rebecca Rebollo, told the judge that her client and her mother were satisfied with the disposition.

“It has been a traumatic ordeal for her and she wanted to be spared from any future trauma by having to testify at trial,” Rebollo said.

According to police, on April 10, 2020, a Bridgeport woman complained that her daughter had been sexually assaulted by a man she met on Snapchat.

Police said the girl had come in contact with Gordon on the social media website where she had given him her address and mentioned that she was home alone while her mother was working at a local hospital.

Gordon arrived at the girl’s home a short time later and police said she let him. Once inside, police said Gordon sexually assaulted the girl.