South Brunswick Man Sentenced For 4,000 Child Porn Files

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — A man from the Dayton section of South Brunswick was sentenced Friday to six years in state prison after he pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography.

Laurence Duque, 43, of Dayton, pleaded guilty on Oct. 26 to second-degree distribution of child pornography. He will be required to register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law and will be subject to parole supervision for life.

While monitoring a peer-to-peer network as part of “Operation Safety Net,” a detective with the New Jersey attorney general's office downloaded numerous files of child pornography from a shared folder at an IP address that was subsequently traced to Duque.

Members of the Division of Criminal Justice, South Brunswick police, Middlesex County prosecutor’s office, U.S. Homeland Security and the New Jersey State Police executed a search warrant at Duque’s residence on Aug. 22, 2017. He was arrested after investigators found numerous files of suspected child pornography on his computer. A full forensic examination revealed over 4,000 files of suspected child pornography on the computer devices seized from his residence.

Duque became a fugitive in September 2017. He was apprehended in Penobscot, Maine in June 2018 by the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force.

Duque was among 79 child predators and child pornography offenders arrested in “Operation Safety Net,” a nine-month, multi-agency child protection operation conducted in 2017 by the New Jersey Regional ICAC Task Force. Ten alleged child predators were arrested, including eight New Jersey men, as well as men in California and Indiana who allegedly tried to have children transported interstate from New Jersey for them to sexually assault.

Photo of Duque provided by the New Jersey Attorney General