Hamilton man admits to having 49k child porn files
TRENTON >> There was no fixing this.
The state Attorney General’s Operation Safety Net takedown led to the conviction of another Mercer County man — in this case, a handyman.
Callen Kapschock, 56, a mechanic living in Hamilton, admitted to having nearly 50,000 files of child porn on his computer.
He pleaded guilty to a second-degree child porn charge in a pact with prosecutors that could send him away for six years, the AG’s office said in statement.
His deal calls for him to be sentenced to six years in the slammer, three of which he must serve before becoming eligible for parole.
Kapschock is also required to register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law and will be on lifetime parole supervision, prosecutors said.
“We are determined to seek lengthy prison sentences for super possessors of child pornography like Kapschock, because the more that offenders collect and distribute these materials, the more they drive the terrible sexual abuse of young children,” Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said. “We will continue to collaborate across all levels of law enforcement to bring these criminals to justice.”
Kapschock, who will be sentenced next year, is the latest Mercer County man to admit to charges stemming from the statewide dragnet of sexual predators who targeted children, in some cases arranging out-of-state meet-ups.
Also nabbed in the 79-person sweep was former Trenton cop Paul Marinell, who admitted to a felony child endangerment count in August.
Marinelli reached a plea deal not long after The Trentonian reported a judge warned prosecutors they were on the verge of having the case tossed out for dragging their feet on getting back results of a forensic download on the former cop’s technological gadgets.
The sick-tot collection Marinelli, a 22-year veteran with TPD who was forced to give up his job, admitted to having – 15 images of prepubescent girls engaged in sex acts – paled in comparison to Kapschock’s trove.
When the authorities raided, seized and examined Kapschock’s computer, they found more than 49,000 videos and images of child porn.
Detectives monitoring a peer-to-peer file sharing network popular with sex offenders downloaded more than 25 files of child pornography from a shared folder at an IP address that was traced to Kapschock.
Cops descended on Kapschock’s home Aug. 31, 2017 and seized his desktop, which was forensically examined revealing the major bust.