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Passaic County Siblings, 6 And 4 Years Old, Raped By Newark Man, Authorities Charge
A Newark man sexually abused two children – one 6, the other 4 – in Paterson and Passaic, authorities charged.
Tahmir Norris, 29, became the subject of an investigation following a May 6 call from St. Mary’s Hospital, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said Friday.
Detectives from the prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit interviewed the 6-year-old child and multiple witnesses, Valdes said.
The older victim reported being sexually abused by Norris at homes in Paterson and Passaic between March and May of this year while the 4-year-old was in the room, the prosecutor said.
The 4-year-…
NJ Software Engineer Busted With 10,000 Photos Of Child Sex Abuse, Authorities Say
A New Jersey man was arrested after more than 10,000 photos depicting child sex abuse were discovered on his computer, authorities said Monday.
Joseph Poutre, 55, of Middletown, was charged with a single count of second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo said.
Ruotolo's office began investigating following a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Spearheaded by Det. Craig Famoso, the investigation led to an IP address being used by Poutre, who at the time lived on the 2000 block of Princeton Avenue in Fa…
Feds: NJ Man Who Sent Links To Investigator For $20 Had 22,000 Child Sex Abuse Images
For just $20, a South Jersey man sent an undercover investigator links to websites that contained images of child sexual abuse, but that was nothing compared to what later turned up, federal authorities said.
Homeland Security agents who raided the Willingboro home of Al-Fahim Medina, 22, found more than 22,000 illegal images, including those of “prepubescent children being sexually abused,” Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said.
It all began last January, Honig said, when the undercover agent found coded online language offering the sale of child pornography on Twitter.
The Twitter…
Feds: Paroled Jersey Shore Child Porn Collector Does It Again
A convicted Jersey Shore child porn collector was caught doing it again, federal authorities said Monday.
Andrew Ramey, 34, of Brick, began trafficking images of "child sexual abuse and child pornography" via the BitTorrent Network in March, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Monday.
A raid of Ramey's home on Friday turned up "multiple images and videos containing images of child sexual abuse, as well as BitTorrent software," on his cellphone, Carpenito said.
Ramey, who already had a federal conviction for child porn possession, was arrested on charges of possession and distribut…