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Jersey City, NJ
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Jersey City Sex Offender Shared 100 Child Porn Images Over Instagram, Prosecutor Says
A 48-year-old Jersey City registered sex offender was arrested on child porn charges, authorities announced. Thomas Gaughran had distributed approximately 100 images of child sex abuse material through Instagram’s direct messenger, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Local authorities launched an investigation following a tip from the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC) on March 11. Gaughran was arrested without incident on Tonnelle Avenue on Friday, July 16, on charges of endangering the welfare of children by distributing child sex abuse material and endangering t…
West Milford, NJ
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West Milford Man, Underage NY Boy Exchanged Sexual Videos, Photos, Indictment Charges
A Passaic County man who’s been jailed since last summer was indicted by a grand jury that said he exchanged sexually explicit videos and photos with a boy as he pursued an in-person meeting, authorities announced Thursday. New York State Police alerted detectives from Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force to Tekanand V. Singh, 29, of West Milford after they said they learned that he’d been communicating with the boy online. “During the course of their exchange, [Singh] directed the victim to send him sexually explicit images and videos,” Pa…
Edison, NJ
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Middlesex Man, 38, Arrested With Child Pornography
A 38-year-old man from Perth Amboy has been arrested after authorities received a tip he was uploading child pornography. Joseph Boka, 38, of Perth Amboy was charged with third-degree possession of child pornography and second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Perth Amboy Police Chief Roman McKeon. His arrest resulted from a CyberTip made to the New Jersey State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Ciccone and McKeon said. …
Paterson, NJ
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HIM? Sheriff Says Another Minor Found Sharing Sex Vids With Passaic County Predator
Authorities were trying to determine whether there were other victims of a Passaic County man who’s been jailed since last summer for having an underage boy send him sex videos and photos. Detectives from Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force were already familiar with Tekanand V. Singh, 29, of West Milford, who's remained jailed since they first arrested him last July. They recently learned from police in Boerne, Texas that another minor “met Singh on the internet and utilized a messaging application to communicate with him,” Berdnik said. Du…
Marlton-Evesham, NJ
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Prosecutor: Staten Island Hospital Janitor Sought Sex With Teenage Girl In South Jersey Motel
A 43-year-old hospital janitor has been arrested for arranging to have sex with a 14-year-old girl in a Burlington County motel, authorities said. John Emilio of Staten Island pleaded guilty on Dec. 23 to attempted endangering the welfare of children in exchange for a three-year sentence in state prison, according to Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina. Emilio is scheduled to be sentenced before Superior Court Judge Gerard H. Breland on March 24 in Mount Holly. Emilio became a suspect in November 2019 during a BCPO High-Tech Crimes Unit proactive investigation into the exploit…
Lower Merion-Narberth, PA
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DA: Pennsylvania Man Busted With 7,000 Child Porn Images, Most Sex Abuse Of Babies, Toddlers
A 63-year-old Pennsylvania man was busted with more than 7,000 child porn images -- most of which depicted toddlers and babies being sexually abused, authorities said Tuesday. The Montgomery County Detective Bureau received 25 cybertips from Google routed through the Delaware County ICAC Task Force concerning an account that contained more than 500 images of child sexual assault imagery depicting children in sexual acts and in sexual poses, District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said. The cybertip provided detectives with the user account information, including the computer IP add…
Jersey City, NJ
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Prosecutor: Union City Man Busted With More Than 1,000 Child Porn Photos On Cell Phone
A 45-year-old Union City man was busted with more than 1,000 child pornography photos on his cell phone, authorities said Tuesday. Detectives executed a search warrant at Felix Martinez's home, acting on a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Martinez was arrested at his house just before 9 a.m. Monday, and charged with endangering the welfare of a child for possession of child porn. Suarez credited the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit…
Elizabeth, NJ
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State AG: California Man, 25, Admits Flying To New Jersey For Oral Sex From 11-Year-Old Girl
A 25-year-old California man who traveled to an Elizabeth restaurant intending to receive oral sex from an 11-year-old girl pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault in Union County Superior Court on Thursday, authorities said. Ian Brewer began exchanging emails in December 2019 with an undercover New Jersey State Police detective. The NJSP detective posed as a man willing to pay Brewer $500 to sexually assault the 11-year-old daughter of his girlfriend, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. The detective told Brewer that he and his girlfriend were members of a group that regularly met …
Hackensack, NJ
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NJ Pedophile Roundup: 21 Caught Having Or Trying To Have Sex With Kids, AG Says
One pedophile traveled to Atlantic City from Oklahoma for sex with two pre-teenage girls. Another had a girl carve his initials into her legs. A third posted a social media video of her raping a youngster she was babysitting. These were among 21 people busted in a massive state pedophile roundup, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced Wednesday. Opportunities for predators to contact children directly have dramatically increased with remote home learning amid the coronavirus pandemic, Grewal said. “Reports to our Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force of potential pred…
Marlton-Evesham, NJ
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'We Know How To Find You': 8 Busted With Child Porn In South Jersey Investigation
Eight men were charged with possession and distribution of child pornography during a continuing South Jersey investigation dubbed “Operation Safe Quarantine." A dramatic rise in internet activity was spurred by the COVID-19 quarantine -- increasing chances of child exploitation online, Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina said. Coffina's office received 52 cyber tips between March 17 and July 16. Last year, his office only had 29 during the same time period. “Those who believe the anonymity of cyberspace will mask their illegal activity could not be more mistaken," said Coffina, not…
Paterson, NJ
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Passaic Sheriff: Man Living In Paterson Garage Trafficked Child Porn
Passaic County sheriff's detectives caught a man living out of a garage in Paterson trafficking child pornography, authorities said. Stephen Lugo, 42, was arrested by at his Albion Avenue home by members of the sheriff's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force after they found the computer images stored on a cloud, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said Thursday. Armed with warrants, the detectives seized several electronic devices from the garage apartment that "will be forensically examined for additional evidence related to the investigation," the sheriff said. They cha…
Newark, NJ
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Prosecutor: Verona Man Had More Than 1,000 Photos Of Children Being Sexually Abused
A 76-year-old Verona man was found with more than 1,000 items depicting the sexual abuse and exploitation of children, said authorities who charged him. Paul J. Bonelli was arrested following an investigation into a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, and Verona Police Chief Christopher Kiernan said. Devices and digital storage media were recovered from Bonelli's home on a search warrant executed by several law enforcement agencies, Stephens and Kiernan said. Bonelli was identified during an investigation…
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