Ex-Ranney Camp Counselor Gets 8-Year Sentence For Child Porn: Feds

TRENTON, NJ — A Red Bank man who worked as a nursery school teacher and for a time as a camp counselor has been sentenced to 97 months in prison for downloading sexually explicit videos and photos of children to his home computer, authorities said.

James Paroline, 28, of Red Bank, additionally was sentenced to 10 years of supervised release before U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson, according to Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced. Paroline pleaded guilty in February to one count of receiving child pornography as a result of the investigation that turned up more than 600 sexually explicit videos and photos of children, authorities said.

Between Feb. 26, 2015, and March 2, 2015, Paroline, who was a summer camp counselor at the Ranney School and also had worked as an assistant at a nursery school, accessed a website known as “PlayPen,” an underground online bulletin board and website dedicated to the advertisement and distribution of child pornography, authorities said.

During that period, Paroline logged into PlayPen under the username “jimbobtropolis,” which he had registered with PlayPen using his personal email address, and downloaded multiple videos and images depicting the sexual abuse of children from the website, they said.

More than 600 images were recovered, prosecutors said, of children as young as 2 years old. Many of the images portrayed "sadistic or masochistic conduct or other depictions of violence," according to the plea agreement.

Fitzpatrick credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Timothy Gallagher in Newark, with the investigation. He also thanked officers of the Red Bank Police Department, under the direction of Chief of Police Darren McConnell; officers of the Middletown Police Department, under the direction of Chief Craig Weber; and detectives of the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, under the direction of Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni, for their assistance.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Brendan Day of the U.S. Attorney’s Office Criminal Division in Trenton.

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