Child Porn Sting Snares Cherry Hill Teen, One of 25 Arrested

A Cherry Hill teen was among 25 people arrested in a statewide child pornography sting, New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa announced Wednesday morning.

The 17-year-old boy, who was not named because of his age, was one of four Camden County residents caught in the three-month effort, dubbed Operation Ever Vigilant, which targeted state residents who allegedly were making child pornography, including child rape videos, available to others.

He and all the others arrested in the sting are charged with second-degree distribution of child pornography and fourth-degree possession of child pornography.

 “Anyone who views and distributes child pornography—particularly the type of child rape videos targeted in this operation—puts himself in league with the predators who sexually assault children to create these videos,” Chiesa said in a statement. “The children they watch being tortured are violated again by their actions, and these offenders may pose a danger to other children because of their predilections. We will remain ever vigilant to stop this predatory behavior against children.”

The arrests were made last week, and all the defendants had multiple sexually explicit videos of young children, which they had made available to others, Chiesa said.

Those videos and images were passed back and forth among users through emails and by way of file sharing networks, state officials said, and detectives found what Chiesa said were disturbing sexually explicit videos portraying necrophilia and bestiality during the searches.

One of the Camden County defendants, Brent Ailiff, of West Berlin, allegedly had hundreds of child pornography files, and remains in jail on $100,000 bail.

“Everyone sitting in the seclusion of their darkened homes viewing child rape videos has victimized these innocents by creating the market for this disgusting material,” said Col. Rick Fuentes, superintendent of the State Police, in a statement. “There’s no room for them to say, ‘I haven’t hurt anyone.’”

Arrested in the sting were: 

• Stephen Rainone, 27, South Amboy, Middlesex County
• Louis Cedeno, 46, Palisades Park, Bergen County
• David Laidlaw, 36, Hillsdale, Bergen County
• Ernest Okhtenberg, 39, Fair Lawn, Bergen County
• Michael Suscreba, 66, Clifton, Passaic County
• Nil Choudhury, 23, Margate City, Atlantic County
• James Engle, 28, Budd Lake, Morris, County
• Albert Femiano, 30, Clark, Union County
• Frank Fiorelli, 61, Springfield, Union County
• Joseph Lorz, 26, Bergenfield, Bergen County
• Jose Oswaldo, 39, Fairview, Bergen County
• Alfred Bakewell, 64, Sicklerville, Camden County
• Moses Garcia, 25, Perth Amboy, Middlesex County
• Jose Holguin, 59, Fords, Middlesex County
• Alexander Ramirez, 36, North Plainfield, Somerset County
• Brent Ailiff, 38, West Berlin, Camden County
• Steven Anan, 52, Neptune City, Monmouth County
• Ryan Bronchella, 34, Clementon, Camden County
• Christopher Brondi, 57, Rumson, Monmouth County
• Manuel Sanchez-Olivarez, 37, Red Bank, Monmouth County
• Duane Bell, 43, Lawrence, Mercer County
• Giovanni Jimenez, 37, Trenton, Mercer County
• William Payton II, 20, Mount Holly, Burlington County
• Frank Sysk II, 19, Browns Mills, Burlington County
• Male juvenile, 17, Cherry Hill, Camden County