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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Woodbridge Man Arrested Among 25 Defendants in Child Porn Ring

Three Middlesex County men, including a resident of Fords, were picked up on charges of kiddie porn, which the AG's office described as the "torture" of children.

A man from the Fords section of Woodbridge was one of 24 men and a juvenile arrested in a kiddie porn ring that spanned 11 counties and the state.  Jose Holguin, 59, was among the three Middlesex county residents arrested in the probe, called Operation Ever Vigilant. Along with the other 24 defendants, Holguin was picked up in a multi-agency operation that ran from February 18 to 22. Operation Ever Vigilant itself began three months ago, when the Digital Technology Investigations Unit of the State Police began searching out offenders who were making child porn available to other aficionados of the practice. Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa characterized the digital child pornography as "vile" in a press conference held in Hamilton, near…

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Former RU Instructor Pleads Guilty To Child Porn Distribution

Gavin Swiatek, 49, of Hillsborough, faces five years in prison for sharing child pornography files over the internet.

A former Rutgers University instructor has pleaded guilty to using a computer in his office at the university to share child pornography videos over the internet. According to a press release from the office of Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa, Gavin Swiatek, 49, a former biochemistry instructor on Cook Campus at Rutgers pleaded guilty to a second-degree charge of distributing child pornography before Superior Court Judge James F. Mulvihill in Middlesex County. Under the plea agreement, the state will recommend that he be sentenced to five years in state prison, and will be permanently barred from public employment. Through his guilty plea, Swiatek admitted using file sharing technology to make available for downloading multiple child …

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