Choudhury was arrested in New Jersey, in 2013.
AB Wire
An Indian American man from Atlantic County, New Jersey, Nil Choudhury, 27, swept up in a 2013 state child pornography crackdown, has been sentenced to four years in prison, authorities said.
Choudhury previously pleaded guilty to charges of possession and distribution of child porn, according to acting Attorney General Robert Lougy, reported NJ Advance Media.
The Margate resident admitted to using file-sharing software to download and distribute the illicit images and videos. He was one of 25 people charged following “Operation Ever Vigilant,” a State Police investigation into child pornography distribution across the state.
Those arrested were from 25 cities and towns across New Jersey. Choudhury was sentenced Friday by Superior Court Bernard E. DeLury Jr. in Atlantic County. He will be required to register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law.
Lougy said in a statement Friday that “anyone who views and distributes child pornography takes part through their actions in the sexual exploitation of children.”
Shore News Today reported that in pleading guilty, Choudhury admitted that he knowingly used file sharing software to make multiple files containing child pornography readily available for any other user to download from a designated “shared folder” on his computer.
He became a target of Operation Ever Vigilant after a detective in the New Jersey State Police Digital Technology Investigations Unit downloaded two videos of child pornography from a shared folder on his computer, while monitoring a file-sharing network popular with sex offenders.
The computer address from which the videos were downloaded was traced to Choudhury’s residence.
When law enforcement officials executed a search warrant at Choudhury’s home on Feb. 19, 2013, a forensic preview of his personal computer revealed numerous images and videos of child pornography.