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Lisa (Moffett) Cuervo, 24, remained held Saturday in the Ocean County Jail, charged with possessing child pornography.
The divorced Cuervo also was charged with having 17 marijuana plants that Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said were found during a warranted search of her home on Friday by members of his High Tech Crime Unit and Point Pleasant Borough police.
Authorities also charged her with child endangerment “based upon the fact that her minor child living in the residence had access to the illegal plants and drug paraphernalia,” Billhimer said.
The arrest was something of a rarity for law enforcement. Studies have found the overwhelming number of defendants charged with possessing and/or trafficking child pornography are men.
New Jersey State Police and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children identified Cuervo as a suspect, the prosecutor said.
Local authorities took over from there.
Records show Cuervo attended Brick Township High School for two years, then got her GED.
“Not to sound cocky as sh*t but I’m a f*cking good person with a big heart and I deserve a lot more than the shitty hand that life has dealt me this far,” Cuervo wrote in a stream of dozens of Facebook posts just before her arrest on Friday.
In response, others posted comments about the charges and her mugshot.
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