TRENTON, NJ—Thomas P. Cook of Eatontown,
New Jersey was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for possessing child
pornography, including violent images of child victims, U.S. Attorney Paul J.
Fishman announced.
Cook, 53, previously pleaded guilty
before U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson to possession of child pornography.
Judge Wolfson imposed the sentenced today in Trenton federal court.
According to documents filed in this
case and statements made in court:
Cook admitting using a computer in his
residence to distribute child pornography from May 2010 to December 2010. He
acknowledged that among the images of child pornography he distributed were
images that depicted minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct with other
minors and adults, including material portraying sadistic or masochistic
conduct or other depictions of violence. The criminal images were brought to
the attention of law enforcement by a tip from Microsoft’s social network
portal known as Windows live Spaces.
In addition to the prison term, Judge
Wolfson sentenced Cook to five years of supervised release.
U.S. Attorney Fishman credited the
Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, under the direction of Peter E. Warshaw Jr.;
and special agents of the FBI’s Cyber Crimes Squad, under the direction of
Special Agent in Charge Michael B. Ward in Newark, with the investigation that
lead to the prosecution.
The government is represented by
Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Wolfe of the U.S. Attorney’s Office Criminal
Division in Trenton.
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