Hazlet Man Indicted On Child Porn Charges

HAZLET, NJ — A Hazlet man was indicted by a Monmouth County grand jury this week on charges of child pornography, according to Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey.

Charles Hoagland, 57, was arrested back in November 2020.

He was indicted on three counts of second-degree endangering via distribution of child sexual abuse materials and one count of second-degree endangering via possession of child sexual abuse materials.

Hoagland was arrested and charged following an investigation by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

The investigation found that the Hazlet man used a messaging platform to send an item depicting the sexual abuse of a child to another individual. He also possessed images "depicting child sexual abuse materials."

Hoagland appeared before Honorable Paul X. Escandon in Monmouth County Superior Court on Nov. 18 and was released pending trial under the conditions that he would not be given internet access (except for employment) and have no unsupervised contact with anyone under 18.

Additional reporting by Nicole Rosenthal

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