Crime & Safety
Woodbridge Man Sentenced To Three Years In Prison On Child Pornography Charges
Jose Holguin, 61, of the Fords section of Woodbridge, must register as a sex offender under the terms of the sentence handed down today.
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A 61-year-old Woodbridge man was sentenced today to three years in state prison on child pornography charges.
Jose F. Holguin, 61, of the Fords section of Woodbridge, must register as a sex offender under the terms of the sentence handed down today by state Superior Court Judge James F. Mulvihill, sitting in New Brunswick.
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Holguin pleaded guilty on Oct. 20 to distribution of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
He was arrested on Feb. 20, 2013 as part of “Operation Ever Vigilant,” a child pornography sweep by the New Jersey State Police, the Division of Criminal Justice, the New Jersey Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and federal partners, according to a news release from Acting state Attorney General John J. Hoffman.
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When Holguin entered the guilty plea, he admitted to using file sharing software to make child pornography available for other users to download from a shared folder on his computer, the news release said.
The State Police Digital Technology Investigations Unit (DTIU) was monitoring a file-sharing network that is popular with sex offenders when they found the videos, according to the news release.
“Holguin and his kind occupy the darkest recesses of the Internet, where producers of child pornography are motivated to record and display their horrific crimes against innocent children and where users of these vile materials re-victimize the victims,” Hoffman said in a prepared statement. “We will continue to conduct these law enforcement sweeps to lock up those who harm and exploit children.”
A total of 24 men and one boy were taken into custody as part of the three-month Operation Ever Vigilant investigation, authorities said.
Deputy Attorney General Naju Lathia handled the state’s case.
Anyone with information about similar crimes is asked to call the New Jersey Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Tipline at 888-648-6007.
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