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Hudson Child Porn Collector Gets 9 Years In Fed Pen

A Jersey City man was sentenced to nine years in federal prison Thursday for collecting child porn.

There's no parole in the Federal Bureau of Prisons system.

There's no parole in the Federal Bureau of Prisons system.

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Benigno Gonzalez-Mendoza, 37, will have to serve just about all of the sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system.

Gonzalez-Mendoza "knowingly received images and videos of child sexual abuse, including videos of adults sexually abusing prepubescent children," U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said.

These included one of a girl believed to between 4 and 6 years old, an FBI complaint on file in U.S. District Court in Newark says.

Rather than face trial, Gonzalez-Mendoza took a deal from the government, admitting that he'd been downloading and viewing such images for several years.

In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton sentenced Gonzalez-Mendoza to 10 years of supervised release and ordered him to pay restitution of $18,000 in exchange for his guilty plea to receiving child pornography.

Sellinger credited special agents of the FBI Newark Field Office for the investigation leading to Gonzalez-Mendoza's plea and sentence, secured by U.S. Attorney Olta Bejleri of his Criminal Division in Newark.

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