Ex-School Camp Counselor, Nursery School Assistant Indicted On Child Porn Charges: N.J. Official

RED BANK, NJ — A Red Bank man who was a summer camp counselor at the Ranney School and a Tinton Falls nursery school assistant has been indicted by a federal grand jury on child pornography charges.

James Paroline, 27, of Red Bank, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges that he received and possessed sexually explicit images of children on his home computer media, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman's office.

Paroline, who was employed as a summer camp counselor at the Ranney School in Tinton Falls and as an assistant at A Child's Place, a nursery school in Middletown, was indicted on one count each of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, according to Matthew Reilly, spokesman for Fishman's office.

Paroline, who was arrested in July 2015, was initially charged with two counts of receiving images of child pornography, he said.

Fishman's office said Paroline is accused of downloading videos and images depicting child sexual abuse from “Website A,” an online bulletin board and website dedicated to the advertisement and distribution of child pornography. Law enforcement officers discovered the images and videos downloaded from the website, and the recipient’s username and IP address were traced back to Paroline’s residence, Fishman's office said. Paroline's home was searched and numerous images and videos containing child pornography were found on computer equipment belonging to Paroline.

The original criminal complaint said the images were of girls from as young as 9 months to 9 years old.

The original complaint also said Paroline, after waiving his Miranda rights, admitted to inappropriately touching minor children.

Reilly said Thursday that the only charges against Paroline are the counts in the current indictment.

Paroline had been a camp counselor at Ranney for 10 years and had worked at A Child's Place, which offers nursery school, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classes for children ages 3 to 7, for two years, according to a report in the Monmouth Journal.

Receiving child pornography over the Internet carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum potential penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

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