Former Keansburg Teacher, Marlboro Resident Admits To Child Porn

KEANSBURG, NJ — A former Keansburg middle school teacher has pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography after his Marlboro Township home was raided last year, and child porn was found on his home computers, the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office announced on Tuesday, April 10.

Marc S. Marinoff, 31, is a resident of Pear Drive in Marlboro. Marinoff was arrested in 2017 after detectives from the county prosecutor’s office executed a search warrant at his home.

Marinoff was a teacher at the Joseph R. Bolger Middle School in Keansburg until his arrest, at which time he was suspended from his job and not allowed to return to the classroom. He has not worked in the school district since, the school district said in a somber statement Monday on their Facebook page.

There is no indication any Keansburg student was victimized, or that anything improper occurred on school grounds, the district said.

He pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree endangering the welfare of a child involving the distribution of child pornography, Monmouth County Prosecutor Chris Gramiccioni announced on Tuesday.

During the raid, Marinoff's various personal electronic devices were seized. Police said they revealed they had contained child pornography and had child porn distributed from them. A forensic examination of the devices found that Marinoff distributed videos of child pornography via a peer-to-peer file-sharing program – an online connection of computers allowing the sharing of files directly between individual users, Gramiccioni said.

Marinoff is scheduled to be sentenced on June 29, 2018, by Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Ellen Torregrossa-O’Connor.

As part of his plea agreement, Marinoff faces a three-year state prison term and will be subject to the provisions of Megan’s Law upon his release from prison. Marinoff is also permanently banned from holding any public employment in New Jersey and has forfeited his current public post as a school teacher.

The case is assigned to Monmouth County Assistant Prosecutor Margaret Koping.

Marinoff is represented by Mitchell J. Ansell Esq., of Ocean Township.

Top photo via the Keansburg school district.