JACKSON – A Jackson Township man has been sentenced to five years in state prison for child pornography after videotaping students during a class trip, and others in a bathroom at the Toms River YMCA.
On November 26, 2018, Matthew Wolny, 43, of Jackson pleaded guilty to the charges of Distribution of Child Pornography.
Back in 2013, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office High Tech Crime Unit along with the Jackson Township Police Department found that Wolny was distributing child pornography through a file sharing application on his computer. A search warrant was performed on September 26, 2013, and detectives seized computer equipment belonging to Wolny.
Detectives found multiple videos from the YMCA in Toms River, where Wolny hid a camera in a bathroom area and videotaped multiple people changing and showering. The investigation further revealed that Wolny had videotaped students during a class trip in Maryland. At the time, Wolny was a youth band leader and IT director for the Howell Township school system.
As a result, Wolny was charged in 2018 relative to these offenses. Then on August 20, 2019, Wolny was sentenced to eight years in federal prison on the charge of Receiving Child Pornography. Currently, he is serving that sentence in a federal correctional facility in Mississippi.
On May 28, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that Wolny was sentenced to five years in New Jersey State Prison for his guilty plea to Distribution of Child Pornography. Wolny’s sentence for Distribution of Child Pornography out of Ocean County will run concurrent with his federal sentence.
Prosecutor Billhimer acknowledged the diligent efforts of Supervising Assistant Prosecutor Kristin Pressman who handled the case on behalf of the State, as well as the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office High Tech Crime Unit, Jackson Township Police Department, and United States Department of Homeland Security, for their collaborative efforts in connection with this investigation, ultimately resulting in Wolny’s prison sentence.
