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Suspect Drove To Bensalem For Sex With Minor, Police Say Suspect Drove To Bensalem For Sex With Minor, Police Say
Suspect Drove To Bensalem For Sex With Minor, Police Say A Bucks County man is accused of driving nearly 40 miles to Bensalem to meet an underage victim for sex, according to authorities.  Eliseo Caraballo, 35, of Kintnersville, is charged with attempted rape of a child and nine other related felonies, said Bensalem police in a release.  Investigators said Caraballo made contact with a victim he believed to be 12 years old on a social media app and "asked the juvenile numerous sexually-charged questions and began indicating that he wanted to engage in sexual acts with her" over a period of days.  Detectives said Caraballo sent and…

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by Mac Bullock
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Allentown Man Drove To Bethlehem To Abuse Teen: Police Allentown Man Drove To Bethlehem To Abuse Teen: Police
Allentown Man Drove To Bethlehem To Abuse Teen: Police An Allentown resident sits in a Northampton County jail cell after police say he drove to Bethlehem early Thursday to meet a minor for sex. Angel Rivera-Rodriguez, 37, was arrested on March 9 following a seven-month investigation, said Bethlehem police in a statement.  Authorities say that in July of last year, Rivera-Rodiguez began corresponding online with a decoy he believed to be a 14-year-old girl. In conversations with the decoy, police said he sent explicit pictures of himself and urged the "teen" to delete his messages.  At 6 a.m. on Thursday, Rivera-Rodriguez parked at t…

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by Mac Bullock
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South Jersey Man Sentenced For Trying To Buy Child Porn Off 12-Year-Old Girl: Authorities South Jersey Man Sentenced For Trying To Buy Child Porn Off 12-Year-Old Girl: Authorities
South Jersey Man Sentenced For Trying To Buy Child Porn Off 12-Year-Old Girl: Authorities A 25-year-old South Jersey man was sentenced to time behind bars for trying to purchase sexual images from a 12-year-old Massachusetts girl, authorities said. Nicholas D. Coffin, of West Deptford, was sentenced to 10 years in New Jersey State Prison and must serve five years before he's eligible for parole, Swansea Police Chief Marc Haslam said.  Coffin is also under a no-contact order, subject parole supervision for life, Megan’s Law restriction, must pay restitution to victims, and is subject to fines. He was convicted in Gloucester County Superior Court of Endangeri…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Authorities: NJ Man Got Kids To Strip On Camera, Could Be Other Victims Authorities: NJ Man Got Kids To Strip On Camera, Could Be Other Victims
Authorities: NJ Man Got Kids To Strip On Camera, Could Be Other Victims An unemployed Lyndhurst had online sexual chats with children whom he convinced to undress for the camera, said authorities who urged parents to check with their youngsters. Vincent P. Incalcaterra, 21, remained held in the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on charges of producing, distributing and possessing child pornography and child endangerment. Incalcaterra, who was arrested during a raid of his Maple Avenue home last week, used a variety of screen names to communicate with the victims while sharing videos of them with ot…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Convicted NJ Child Porn Trafficker Gets 20+ Years In Fed Pen, No Parole, For Enticing Minors Convicted NJ Child Porn Trafficker Gets 20+ Years In Fed Pen, No Parole, For Enticing Minors
Convicted NJ Child Porn Trafficker Gets 20+ Years In Fed Pen, No Parole, For Enticing Minors A convicted child porn trafficker from Union County must spend no fewer than 20 years in federal prison for doing it again while soliciting two children to "engage in sexually explicit conduct online," authorities said. Christopher Gardiner, 39, of Cranford, must serve out just about all of the plea-bargained 20 years and eight months that he was sentenced to on Tuesday, Feb. 8, because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Gardiner, who'd been convicted of similar charges in Union County in 2007, conducted an "ongoing sexually graphic conversation on a web-based social media appl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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PA Sex Offender On 'Worst Teachers' List Caught Chatting Up Children On Snapchat, Police Say PA Sex Offender On 'Worst Teachers' List Caught Chatting Up Children On Snapchat, Police Say
PA Sex Offender On 'Worst Teachers' List Caught Chatting Up Children On Snapchat, Police Say A former high school teacher and registered sex offender has been caught chatting with children on Snapchat, according to a release by police. Andrew Eberhart, 24, of Lebanon, previously posed online as a woman with the user name "Jordynmatter" on Instagram in an attempt to gather sexually explicit photos of young boys, the Lebanon district attorney stated following a year's long investigation in 2020. Eberhart might be a year older, but apparently is no wiser as an investigation was started in December because he was thought to be back at it again, but this time he was using Snapchat. Leb…

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by Jillian Pikora
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NY Delivery Driver Gets Four Years In Prison For Seeking Sex With NJ 'Girl' NY Delivery Driver Gets Four Years In Prison For Seeking Sex With NJ 'Girl'
NY Delivery Driver Gets Four Years In Prison For Seeking Sex With NJ 'Girl' A takeout food delivery driver from Westchester who was arrested when he showed up at a Bergen County home for sex with what he thought was a 14-year-old girl was sentenced Friday to four years in state prison. Jacob Smith, 28, used the name “LaidbackJay” to connect on the online app with what turned out to be an undercover detective posing as an underage girl. Smith ended up becoming one of seven men from New York State taken into custody after travelling to the house being used by local and state authorities in what was known as “Operation Home Alone.” Before showing up, Smith “expressed…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Somerset Man Who Flew To Philippines For Sex With Minor Sentenced To 9 Years In Fed Pen Somerset Man Who Flew To Philippines For Sex With Minor Sentenced To 9 Years In Fed Pen
Somerset Man Who Flew To Philippines For Sex With Minor Sentenced To 9 Years In Fed Pen A Somerset County man who flew to the Philippines to have sex with a minor he met online is headed to federal prison for nine years. James A. Diggs, 45, of Somerville, told a U.S. District Court judge earlier this year that he used a messaging app to “persuade, induce, entice, and coerce” the victim into having sex with him during what became an October 2018 visit to the Southeast Asian country. He headed there out of JFK Airport in Queens at least seven times over four years, Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Rachel A. Honig said. Rather than go to trial, Diggs took a deal from the gove…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Man Facing 8 Years In Prison For Traveling To PA For Sex Agent Posing As Girl, 14 Man Facing 8 Years In Prison For Traveling To PA For Sex Agent Posing As Girl, 14
Man Facing 8 Years In Prison For Traveling To PA For Sex Agent Posing As Girl, 14 A Wilmington, Delaware man is facing eight years behind bars for crossing state lines to Pennsylvania to have sex with whom he believed was a 14-year-old girl but was actually an undercover agent, authorities said. Thomas Traumann, 53, began an online chat relationship through a social media website with the "girl" on Nov. 3, 2018, according to Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams. Traumann repeatedly acknowledged that the “girl” was 14-years-old and made his intentions quite clear that he wanted to have a sexual encounter with her days later, Williams said. He al…

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by Nicole Acosta