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Friday, August 3, 2018

3rd Child Porn Conviction For Old Bridge Man

Old Bridge man with two prior child porn convictions pleaded guilty Thursday to having 119 images and 65 child sex videos on his cell.


By Carly Baldwin, Patch Staff | Aug 3, 2018

OLD BRIDGE, NJ — An Old Bridge man who has two prior child pornography convictions resulting from arrests in 2006 and 2009 pleaded guilty Thursday to a new child pornography charge stemming from his arrest last year in "Operation Safety Net."

Kevin G. Wenng Jr., 36, of Old Bridge, pictured above, pleaded guilty before Superior Court Judge Dennis V. Nieves on Thursday, Aug. 2 to possessing more than 100 files of child pornography. Under the plea agreement, the state will recommend that Wenng be sentenced to five years in state prison.

He already was registered as a sex offender under Megan's Law, but the state will now recommend that he be ordered to be subject to parole supervision for life. Wenng is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 2.

Wenng was arrested on May 9, 2017, by detectives from the New Jersey State Police, Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office and Old Bridge police dept. State police had received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) about a user who uploaded numerous files of child pornography to a cloud storage account. The account was linked to IP addresses that were traced to Wenng. The detectives seized a desktop computer and two cell phones from Wenng. A total of 119 images and 65 videos of child pornography were found on the cell phones.

Wenng was among 79 people arrested in "Operation Safety Net," a nine-month, multi-agency child protection operation conducted in 2017 by the New Jersey Regional Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, which is led by the New Jersey State Police and includes the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice, U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), all 21 county prosecutors' offices, and many other state, county and local law enforcement agencies.

Ten alleged "hands-on" offenders were arrested in Operation Safety Net, including eight New Jersey men, as well as men in California and Indiana who allegedly tried to have children transported interstate from New Jersey so they could sexually assault them.

In 2007, Wenng pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography and was sentenced to three years in state prison. He was required to register as a sex offender under Megan's Law. In 2010, he pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of child pornography and was sentenced to five years of probation.

Mugshot provided by the New Jersey Attorney General.