NJ Inmate Sentenced For Trafficking Child Porn In Federal Prison

FORT DIX, NJ - A Massachusetts man was sentenced Thursday in Camden federal court for trafficking thousands of images and videos of child pornography while lodged at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix for a previous child porn conviction, federal officials said.

William H. Noble, 57, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 480 months in prison following a long-term FBI investigation that led to similar charges against seven other Fort Dix inmates, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Read more: Fort Dix Inmate Indicted In Child Porn Ring: Authorities

Noble was convicted in November 2021 after a three-day jury trial of conspiring to receive and distribute child pornography, receiving child pornography, distributing child pornography, possessing child pornography, and accessing with intent to view child pornography on federal property.

Between Nov. 1, 2016, to April 26, 2017, while an inmate at Fort Dix, Noble conspired with other inmates to receive and distribute child porn images as he was serving an 81-month sentence. He was scheduled to be released on March 8, 2018, federal officials said.

Noble was able to access the images on the “dark web” using cell phones that had been smuggled into the prison, officials added. The conspirators then stored the images on shared micro-SD cards.

On April 19, 2017, Noble handed over a micro-SD card containing over 2,400 images and nearly 100 videos of child sexual abuse to a government informant, with many of the files depicting sexual abuse against prepubescent children, including infants and toddlers. Noble was arrested on Feb. 5, 2018.

In addition to the prison term, Noble was sentenced to five years of supervised release. Noble was also ordered to pay $63,415 in restitution to the victims.