Child Pornography

It's been one of the more disturbing and troubling epidemics of the last few years in New Jersey.

An Ocean County man has been arrested and formally charged with possession of child pornography, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office.

Detectives who analyzed Johnny Sims's digital gear said that they found at least 20 salacious and brutal videos involving rapes of children, many in a peer-to-peer shared folder.

Erik M. Smith of Michigan admitted downloading salacious images from a cloud account onto a micro SD card.

Bruce Davis admitted downloading and spreading child pornography through a file-sharing network.

Matthew Kaminsky is sentenced for coaxing a 13-year-old girl into sending him images of herself in the buff, through e-mails, instant messages and online chats.

A convicted child predator from Atlantic City, accused of receiving thousands of images of child sexual abuse is ordered to remain incarcerated until court hearings begin.

A Williingboro 25-year-old with a history of stalking and threatening young girls through social media can expect to spend up to eight years in prison for producing child pornography, and for forcing a 13-year-old girl to send him digital explicit images of herself.

The former chief of Camden County's Audobon Park Volunteer Fire Company will be recommended for six years in state prison, three mandatory, and for registration as a sex offender, for indulging in child pornography on a computer at the firehouse.

A suspected child porn peddler from Woodbine, accused in New Jersey of uploading images to the web, is charged in South Carolina for allegedly engaging a 13-year-old girl to perform sex acts in front of a webcam.