Investigators found more than 260 images and videos of child pornography on his computer.
CAMDEN -- A 28-year-old Mount Ephraim man was sentenced to eight years in state prison Friday after a jury convicted him of multiple child pornography offenses, authorities said.
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Gerald Laphan, 28 of Mount EphraimThe New Jersey Attorney General's Office said Gerald D. Laphan was found guilty of second-degree distribution of child pornography, second-degree offering of child pornography and fourth-degree possession of child pornography on Feb. 10 following a trial in Camden County Superior Court.
Laphan was charged on March 7, 2012 after a Gloucester County's Prosecutor's Office detective looking into peer-to-peer file sharing networks was able to download multiple videos of child pornography, including one of a man raping a pre-pubescent girl, from a user.
Investigators from the New Jersey State Police and members of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force traced the videos to Laphan's IP address and executed a search warrant at his home, where they found two laptops containing 265 videos and images of child pornography.
"We will do everything within our power to make sure that the depraved individuals who choose to share these horrific videos and images are removed from society and put into prison where they belong," said Colonel Rick Fuentes, Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police, in a written statement. "I commend the outstanding investigative work of detectives in the Digital Technology Investigations Unit, who are at times tasked with handling these dark and disturbing cases."
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