TRENTON
– A Hamilton man was sentenced today
for accessing a woman’s email account
and retrieving nude photos of her without
her authorization, Attorney General Anne
Milgram and Criminal Justice Director Deborah
L. Gramiccioni announced.
Mario
Esposito, 21, of Hamilton, Mercer County,
was sentenced to four years of probation
by Superior Court Judge Gerald J. Council
in Mercer County. He was also ordered to
perform 200 hours of community service.
Esposito pleaded guilty on Oct. 29 to an
accusation charging him with third-degree
computer criminal activity. The charge resulted
from an investigation by the New Jersey
State Police Cyber-Crimes Unit.
Judge
Council ordered that Esposito not use the
Internet during his period of probation
except for employment or school purposes,
and he is prohibited from having any contact
with the victim. Esposito was ordered to
forfeit a computer, a cell phone and an
Ipod seized in the investigation.
In
pleading guilty, Esposito admitted that
between May 17 and June 13 of 2008, he logged
into the Yahoo! email account of the 19-year-old
victim without her authorization and accessed
email files containing personal photographs.
The State Police investigation determined
that he copied nude photographs of her from
her email files into his own computer files.
Deputy
Attorney General Mark A. Murtha prosecuted
the case and handled today’s sentencing
for the Division of Criminal Justice Computer
Analysis and Technology Unit. The case was
investigated by Detective Sgt. John F. Gorman
and Detective Brian Kearns of the New Jersey
State Police Cyber-Crimes Unit.
Esposito
was arrested on June 13, when State Police
detectives executed a search warrant at
his home and seized his home computer.
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