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Tenant With 1,700 Child Porn Files Secretly Recorded Garfield Kid For Gratification: Prosecutor Tenant With 1,700 Child Porn Files Secretly Recorded Garfield Kid For Gratification: Prosecutor
Tenant With 1,700 Child Porn Files Secretly Recorded Garfield Kid For Gratification: Prosecutor A Garfield kiddie porn collector planted a camera that secretly recorded a child for his sexual gratification, authorities charged. Jorge E. Mendez, a 56-year-old married product inspector, was arrested during a raid of his second-floor apartment on Tuesday, Dec. 5, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Mendez was charged with production and possession of child sexual abuse material by Cyber Crimes Unit investigators who seized 1,700 images of “nude and/or sexually explicit pubescent and prepubescent children,” the prosecutor said. He remained held in the Bergen County Jail pending …

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Child 'Sexploitation': Ridgewood Man, Accused Female Trafficker From Georgia Busted In Probe Child 'Sexploitation': Ridgewood Man, Accused Female Trafficker From Georgia Busted In Probe
Child 'Sexploitation': Ridgewood Man, Accused Female Trafficker From Georgia Busted In Probe The arrest of a Ridgewood man who sought nude photos and videos from kids he had online sex chats with led investigators to a child in Georgia who was being victimized by a female sex trafficker, authorities said. James A. Razin, 36, “used the Internet to view, download, possess, and distribute files depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent children,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said on Wednesday, May 25. Razin, who lives in the Mayflower Apartments complex on East Ridgewood Avenue, also “engaged[d] in live, one-on-one online chats with children and requested nude ima…

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Prosecutor: Garfield Grandpa Busted At Local Park Trying To Meet Pre-Teen For Sex Prosecutor: Garfield Grandpa Busted At Local Park Trying To Meet Pre-Teen For Sex
Prosecutor: Garfield Grandpa Busted At Local Park Trying To Meet Pre-Teen For Sex A 72-year-old married retiree from Garfield was arrested at a local park when he tried to meet a pre-teen there following phone sex and texts, authorities said Wednesday. Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and Garfield police seized Angel Bernard at Dophine Park on Monday. A judge in Hackensack released him with conditions less than 24 hours later, records show. Investigators from the BCPO Special Victims and Cyber Crimes units were alerted by Garfield police, who’d discovered that Bernard was “communicating via smartphone text messaging and phone conversations” with a m…

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Bergenfield Retiree, 75, Busted For Trafficking Child Porn Bergenfield Retiree, 75, Busted For Trafficking Child Porn
Bergenfield Retiree, 75, Busted For Trafficking Child Porn A 75-year-old Bergenfield retiree was caught sharing downloaded child porn, said authorities who arrested him Tuesday. Joseph Benestante was released pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on charges of distributing child pornography, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Members of Musella’s Cyber Crimes Unit arrested Benestante while searching his North Demarest Avenue home near West Main Street during a months-long investigation that found that he’d “used the Internet to view and share digital files depicting nude and/or sexually explicit pre…

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by Jerry DeMarco