Manalapan Man Charged With Child Porn Distribution

MANALAPAN, NJ — A Manalapan man was arrested Friday and charged with possession and distribution of child pornography, the Monmouth County prosecutor's office announced. The arrest was the result of a three-month investigation, said Prosecutor Chris Gramiccioni.

Angelo Curato, 25, of Eliot Road in Manalapan, is charged with one count of third-degree distribution of child pornography and one count of second-degree distribution of child pornography.

Curato was arrested and charged Friday, June 2, following an investigation by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office Computer Crimes Unit. The charges are the result of a forensic examination of Curato’s computer, which revealed multiple items of child pornography in a shared peer-to-peer file-sharing program folder. Peer-to-peer file-sharing allows an online user to share files with other individual users through peer-to-peer file-sharing software.

If convicted of the second-degree offense, Curato faces a sentence of five to ten years in prison.

If convicted of the third-degree charge, he faces a sentence of three to five years in prison.