Former RU Instructor Pleads Guilty To Child Porn Distribution
Gavin Swiatek, 49, of Hillsborough, faces five years in prison for his role in sharing child pornography files over the internet.
A former Rutgers University instructor has pleaded guilty to using a computer in his office at the university to share child pornography videos over the internet. According to a press release from the office of Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa, Gavin Swiatek, 49, a former biochemistry instructor on Cook Campus at Rutgers, pleaded guilty to a second-degree charge of distributing child pornography before Superior Court Judge James F. Mulvihill in Middlesex County. Under the plea agreement, the state will recommend that he be sentenced to five years in state prison, and will be permanently barred from public employment. Through his guilty plea, Swiatek admitted using file sharing technology to make available for downloading multiple child …
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