Brick Man, 37, Sentenced to 14 Years for Soliciting Explicit Videos From Minors

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A Brick Township man was sentenced on Dec. 2, 2025, to 168 months in prison – 14 years – for receiving videos and images depicting child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s office for New Jersey announced Tuesday.

Daniel Nilla, 37, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp in Trenton federal court to an information charging him with three counts of receipt of child pornography.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court, the incidents that led to the charges occurred between December 2021 and April 2023. During that time period Nilla communicated with at least five minor victims on a multimedia instant messaging application” and knew the victims were minors when he communicated with them. During the communications, Nilla “directed the victims to send him images and videos of themselves engaging in sexually explicit conduct, which Nilla used for his sexual gratification.”

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In addition to the prison term, Shipp sentenced Nilla to ten years of supervised release.

Senior Counsel Philip Lamparello credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Stefanie Roddy in Newark, with the investigation. Special agents of the FBI Kansas City, Kansas Division and the City of Edwardsville, Kansas Police Department, also assisted in the investigation.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit.

The government was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Belgiovine of the Criminal Division in Trenton. No photo of Nilla was available.