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Director Of Saddle Brook School Program Jailed On Child Sex Abuse Charges
UPDATE: The recently-hired director of a before- and after-school program in Saddle Brook exchanged nude images with a victim under 16 and had conversations on social media with several juveniles that "included sexually explicit dialogue," Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Friday. Jack T. Anderson, 25, of Fair Lawn, also met with one of the minors at least three separate times, the prosecutor said. Anderson has worked extensively with youngsters the past several years in New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, records show. Musella asked that any parent or guardian who determines …
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! NYC Man Sent Penis Pics, Drove To NJ Motel For Sex With Underage 'Girl,' Feds Charge
Federal agents arrested a Bronx man who they said drove nearly 75 miles Wednesday to a South Jersey motel for what he thought would be sex with a 13-year-old girl after sending “her” penis pics. Eduardo Silva, 42, didn’t know that he’d actually been texting and chatting online with an undercover federal agent and not an underage girl, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito. Silva asked whether the purported minor was “into older guys” while “discussing his intent to travel and engage in sexual activity” after reaching out on a social media app, Carpenito said. “He also sent sexually explicit images…
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California Man Caught In Sting Admits Traveling To NJ To Have Sex With 11-Year-Old Girl
A California man will be sentenced to seven years in state prison after admitting Thursday that he traveled to Elizabeth for what he believed was sex with an 11-year-old girl. The “father” who arranged the scenario was actually an undercover New Jersey State Police detective, authorities said. Ian Brewer, 25, of Pomona, began exchanging emails with the undercover detective in December 2019, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. “The undercover detective said that for a fee, Brewer could sexually assault the 11-year-old daughter of his girlfriend,” Grewal said. The detective claime…
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Feds: Somerset County Man Who Chatted With Undercover Detective Had Hundreds Of Child Porn Pics
An undercover detective nabbed a Somerset County man who federal authorities said trafficked child porn images, federal authorities said. John Schulenburg, 65, of Basking Ridge, is charged with distribution and possession of child pornography in an indictment handed up Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Newark, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Schulenburg has remained free on $100,000 unsecured bond since his arrest last November, the U.S. attorney said. The undercover investigators conducted an online session with Schulenberg last July using a publicly available peer-to-peer (P2P) pr…
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Two Sentenced In Jersey Shore Child Sex Sting
Two Ocean County men were sentenced to plea-bargained state prison terms for planning sexual encounters with underage teens who were actually police, authorities said. Volvi Lowinger and Brian Degnan were among 24 men nabbed in a "To Catch a Predator"-type sting dubbed “Operation Open House.” Lowinger, a 25-year-old student from Lakewood who worked at a dry cleaning business, was sentenced last Friday to four years in state prison by a Superior Court judge in Toms River after previously pleaded guilty to luring. Degnan, a 34-year-old data entry clerk from Toms River, was sentenced Tuesday …
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Feds: NYC Man, 35, Took Underage Jersey Girl Back To Queens For Sex
A 35-year-old Queens livery driver drove more than 150 miles to have sex with a 15-year-old girl in South Jersey, then took her back to his Sunnyside home for more -- and even recorded some of it on a cellphone, federal authorities charged. Richard Gabriel Piedra-Ordonez broke federal law by crossing state lines with the minor for sex, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Wednesday. Piedra-Ordonez faces an additional count of “traveling for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct,” the U.S. attorney said. Piedra-Ordonez began communicating with the girl in May “using various socia…
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Pervert Who Thought He Was Meeting Girl, 8, For Sex At Ramsey Hotel Gets 19½ Years In Fed Pen
A 69-year-old Massachusetts man who thought he was meeting an 8-year-old girl for sex at a Ramsey hotel was sentenced Wednesday to 19½ years in federal prison, nearly all of which he must serve before being eligible for parole. Richard Bly, who was convicted in U.S. District Court in July of using the Internet to solicit sex with a minor, thought he was meeting the youngster and her mother, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Federal agents and Bergen County prosecutor's detectives were waiting instead. At the time, Bly was out on bail after police in Massachusetts arrested him for a simi…
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East Orange Police Officer Facing More Child Sex Assault Charges
An East Orange police sergeant arrested earlier this month on charges involving the sex assault of minors 20 years ago now faces additional charges, the Union County Prosecutor's Office said. Edward Giles, 59, is accused of committing at least some of the crimes at his Roselle home. He was initially charged with multiple offenses involving two boys who were aged 11 and 12 when the activity allegedly began in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The boys were players with East Orange's Police Athletic League football program, which Giles was coaching at the time. He now faces s…
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Feds Smash World's Largest Dark Web Child Porn Network By Following Bitcoin Trail
Federal authorities have smashed the world’s largest dark web child porn marketplace, arresting a whopping 337 people around the world – some of them in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut -- all thanks to bitcoin. To sniff out the network, investigators used a unique strategy. "Welcome to Video" was one of the first websites of its kind to monetize exploitation videos of infants, toddlers and other children, "one of the worst forms of evil imaginable," one federal prosecutor said. The network used bitcoin because of the difficulty in tracing it, the Justice Department said in a complaint…
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4 Years For Man Who Tried To Lure 'Girl' Online - But Got Caught In Sting Instead
A Maryland man who tried to entice who he thought was a 13-year-old girl into sex but who was actually interacting with an undercover State Police detective was sentenced to four years in prison, Attorney General Girbir S. Grewal said Friday. Romero E. Jimenez, 37, of Hyattsville, pleaded guilty last month in Union County to a charge of luring. In addition to his prison sentence he will be required to register as a Megan's Law offender and will be under parole supervision for life. A detective with the State Police Digital Technology Investigations Unit was contacted by Jimenez …
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HIM? FBI Seeks Public's Help Finding Stranger In Child Sexual Exploitation Case
The FBI sought the public’s help Wednesday identifying a man who “may have critical information” about the identity of a child victim in an ongoing sexual exploitation investigation. The bureau distributed photos of the stranger – dubbed “John Doe 41” – that were captured from a video that authorities believe was produced sometime from 2016 to 2018. He is described as African American, between 18 and 20 years old and thin, with black hair. Authorities are searching for the man as part of the FBI’s Operation Rescue Me and Endangered Child Alert Program (ECAP) initiatives, both operated joi…
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Irvington Man Had 100K Child Porn Images, Authorities Say
A 33-year-old Irvington man was indicted on charges he was in possession of more than 100,000 images showing the sexual abuse or exploitation of children, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday. Jose Morales was arraigned Monday in Essex County Superior Court following his arrest in November at his Irvington home, where investigators from the prosecutor's Special Victims Unit and the State Police Internet Crimes Against Children task force allegedly found the images. Authorities began to investigate Morales after he uploaded the material to an online account, the pros…
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