TRENTON
- Attorney General Anne Milgram and Criminal
Justice Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni announced
that a Morris County man was sentenced to
state prison today for distributing child
pornography on the Internet. He was among
more than three dozen people arrested in 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, Alberto Camacho,
44, of Pompton Plains, was ordered by Superior
Court Judge Thomas V. Manahan in Morris County
to serve three years in state prison. The
sentence is pursuant to Camacho’s Nov.
5, 2008 guilty plea to distribution of child
pornography and possession of child pornography.
Camacho will be barred from using computers
with Internet access during his time in prison.
In
pleading guilty, Camacho admitted that between
July and September 2007, 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.
On
Dec. 12, Camacho’s live-in girlfriend,
Joan Lamb, 45, was sentenced by Judge Manahan
to a one-year probationary term. On Nov. 5,
she pleaded guilty to possession of child
pornography.
A
search warrant executed by the New Jersey
State Police on Sept. 24, 2007 revealed evidence
of child pornography on Lamb’s computer.
Camacho admitted that he was the one to create
the shared folder.
The
Digital Technology Investigation Unit of the
New Jersey State Police coordinated the investigation.
Deputy Attorney General Betty Rodriguez represented
the Division of Criminal Justice at the sentencing.
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