Post office maintenance worker shared child porn, authorities say

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives arrested a North Arlington maintenance worker at his job with the U.S. Postal Service on Monday and charged him with trafficking in kiddie porn. Thomas A. Pearn, 38, is being held on $50,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail following his arrest in Kearny this morning on child pornography possession and distribution, as well as child endangerment.

Jerry DeMarco

06/20/2011 6:16 p.m.

Thomas Pearn

Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said Pearn, who is married, dealt in images and videos of pre-pubescent children “engaged in sexual acts.” He has a court date tomorrow afternoon.

Molinelli praised North Arlington police and postal inspector for their help in the arrest, made by members of his Computer Crimes Task Force – made up of members of the Bergen County, Lyndhurst, Hillsdale and Bogota police department.

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