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Middlesex Prosecutor: Carteret Man, 66, Caught With Child Pornography
A 66-year-old man from Carteret was arrested on child pornography charges, authorities said. A tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) prompted the investigation of Edward Kross by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, assisted by Carteret police, Middlesex County Acting Prosecutor Christopher L.C. Kuberiet said in a joint statement with local police. Kross was arrested Thursday and lodged at the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center pending an initial court appearance, authorities said. Authorities did not release any m…
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Morris County Sex Offender Previously Convicted Of Assaulting Boys Gets 10 Years For Child Porn
A registered sex offender from Morris County who served time for sexually assaulting two boys is headed back to prison for uploading child porn. Under New Jersey’s No Early Release Act, Alexander Willadsen, 31, must serve 8½ years of a 10-year state prison sentence handed down Friday by Superior Court Judge David H. Ironson in Morristown before he'll be eligible for parole. Willadsen, who pleaded guilty last year to possessing child pornography, also will be subject to lifelong parole supervision and Megan’s Law registration. Willadsen, of Rockaway, previous served time…
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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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Middlesex Child Molester Gets 5 Years For Trying To Hook Up With ‘Boy,’ 14
A convicted child molester from Middlesex County was sentenced to five years in state prison Friday for trying to lure a 14-year-old “boy” – actually an undercover detective -- to a local park for sex. Harold Gordner, 42, of Highland Park, admitted last September that he had sexually explicit chats and sent naked photos of himself, along with links to porn videos, to what turned out to be a New Jersey State Police investigator trolling social media for predators. Gordner, who already was registered as a Megan’s Law sex offender, “asked several times whether he could send a car service to pi…
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Prosecutor: 5th Grade Teacher Had Dozens Of Child Porn Images
A Tenafly elementary school teacher was arrested by investigators who found five dozen child pornography images belonging to him stored on a cloud, authorities confirmed Friday. Pasquale Bernaldo-Antonelli, 42, remained held in the Bergen County Jail, charged with child endangerment by possessing and/or viewing images of child pornography and/or abuse following his arrest the day before by detectives from Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella's office. Cyber Crimes Unit investigators traced a child-porn complaint from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in January to…
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: 5th Grade Teacher Had Dozens Of Child Porn Images, Bergen Investigators Charge
A Tenafly elementary school teacher was arrested by investigators who said they found 32 child pornography images belonging to him stored on a cloud. Pasquale Bernaldo-Antonelli, 42, remained held in the Bergen County Jail on Friday, charged with child endangerment by possessing and/or viewing images of child pornography and/or abuse following his arrest the day before by detectives from Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella's office. The investigators said they traced a child-porn complaint from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in January to Bernaldo-Antonelli. …
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Indictment: Jersey Shore Officer Schedules Sex With Undercover Detective Posing As Girl, 15
A suspended Jersey Shore police officer seeking sex with a 15-year-old girl arranged a tryst with what turned out to be an undercover investigator, an indictment returned Wednesday charges. Richard C. Conte, 48, of Farmingdale, used his work phone at the Howell Township Police Department to chat with the investigator with the New Jersey Regional Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Although the investigator “repeatedly indicated that ‘she’ was 15 years old,” Conte “continued to chat with her online and email her,” claiming that he was o…
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Westfield Man Admits Having Thousands Of Child Pornography Files
A 37-year-old man admitted he planned to distribute thousands of digital files depicting the sexual exploitation of children, the Union County Prosecutor's Office said Wednesday. Gregory L. Brown of John Street in Westfield was arrested in February after an investigation started after an alert from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Investigators looked at Tumblr and other social media accounts associated with Brown as well as electronic devices, including a phone and a broken tablet, all of which contained thousands of files showing children engaged in various sex…
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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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: Madison Man, 44, Distributed Child Porn From Personal Computer
A 44-year-old Madison man was charged with possession and distribution of child pornography, authorities said. Gary Anderson used his personal computer to upload and distribute the images between December 2018 and July 2019, Morris County Prosecutor Fredric Knapp said. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children notified the prosecutor's office. Anderson was arrested at his home and taken to the Morris County Correctional Facility pending a first appearance in court Friday. Anyone with further information can call Detective/Supervisor Jazmin Munoz-Felder of the Morris Coun…
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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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Poultry Market Worker Trafficked Child Porn On His Cellphone, Passaic County Sheriff Charges
An employee of a live chicken market was caught trafficking child pornography in Paterson, the Passaic County sheriff said. A tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children led police to Eleazar Maldonado-Martinez, 27 of Newark, who sent the images to others online with his cellphone after accessing a Wi-Fi provider’s network in the Silk City, Passaic County Sheriff Richard H. Berdnik said. “During the investigation, detectives were able to obtain additional images and video files of child pornography stored in [his] Internet-based photo account,” Berdnik said. They arrest…
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