Crime & Safety
Gloucester Twp Man Sentenced For Making Child Porn: Prosecutor
The South Jersey man also transported a child across state lines for sexual activity in 2017, federal authorities said.
GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ - A federal judge sentenced a Gloucester Township man Tuesday to 30 years in prison for production of child pornography, authorities said.
David Taylor, 34, of the Blackwood section of Gloucester Township, must undergo a decade of supervised release after the prison term, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said Thursday.
Between July 15 and July 18, 2017, Taylor produced child pornography and transported a minor from Pennsylvania to New Jersey with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, all while required by law to register as a sex offender, according to United States Attorney Gerard M. Karam.
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The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office, the Gloucester Township Police Department and the Pennsylvania State Police.
The case was brought as part of the nationwide initiative Project Safe Childhood, launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse.
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Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims.
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