TRENTON - Attorney General
Anne Milgram and Criminal Justice Director
Deborah L. Gramiccioni announced that a Sussex
County man was sentenced to state prison today
for distributing child pornography over the
Internet. The defendant was among more than
three dozen people arrested in September and
October 2007 as part of “Operation Silent
Shield,” an investigation that targeted
offenders who distributed known images and
videos of child pornography via the Internet.
According to Director Gramiccioni,
Sean Turner, 20, of Highland Lakes, was ordered
by Superior Court Judge N. Peter Conforti
in Sussex County to serve three years in state
prison and to register under Megan’s
Law. The sentence was a result of Turner’s
guilty plea to distribution of child pornography,
a charge contained in an Oct. 14, 2008 state
grand jury indictment.
At the Feb. 23 guilty plea
hearing, Turner admitted that he knowingly
used Internet file sharing software to make
multiple files containing child pornography
readily available for any other user to download
from a designated “shared folder”
on his computer. A search warrant executed
by the New Jersey State Police on Sept. 24,
2007 revealed numerous videos containing child
pornography on Turner’s computer.
The Digital Technology Investigation
Unit of the New Jersey State Police coordinated
the investigations. Deputy Attorney General
Betty Rodriguez represented the Division of
Criminal Justice at the sentencing.
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