{"id":1580,"date":"2018-01-31T12:24:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T17:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2018-01-31T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T17:24:31","slug":"south-toms-river-man-who-worked-as-school-janitor-pleads-guilty-to-child-porn-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/01\/south-toms-river-man-who-worked-as-school-janitor-pleads-guilty-to-child-porn-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"South Toms River Man Who Worked as School Janitor Pleads Guilty to Child Porn Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1581\" style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1581\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1581\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/randy-hullpng-ea63fcd2259f001b.png\" alt=\"Randy Hull (File Photo)\" width=\"512\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/randy-hullpng-ea63fcd2259f001b.png 512w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/randy-hullpng-ea63fcd2259f001b-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/randy-hullpng-ea63fcd2259f001b-323x420.png 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randy Hull (File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A South Toms River man who authorities said was employed as a school janitor has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges and is now awaiting sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Hull, 44, pleaded guilty Tuesday to distribution of child pornography in the courtroom of Superior Court Judge James M. Blaney.\u00a0As part of the plea, he has forfeited his public employment as janitor with Long Branch public schools.<\/p>\n<p>Hull remains free on posted $75,000 bail pending his sentencing, currently scheduled for March 23, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Hull\u2019s guilty plea stems from his Aug. 10, 2016 arrest by the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s High Tech Crime Unit. The arrest was part of a six-month investigation, dubbed \u201cOperation Statewide\u201d by the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, of which OCPO HTCU is member.<\/p>\n<p>The operation tracked images of the sexual exploitation of minors circulating on Internet file-sharing networks to individual IP addresses, which led police to the home addresses of suspects in each of the state\u2019s 21 counties.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/01\/south-toms-river-man-who-worked-as-school-janitor-pleads-guilty-to-child-porn-charge\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Toms River man who authorities said was employed as a school janitor has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges and is now awaiting sentencing. Randy Hull, 44, pleaded guilty Tuesday to distribution of child pornography in the courtroom of Superior Court Judge James M. Blaney.\u00a0As part of the plea, he has forfeited his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[525,11],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-randy-hull","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/randy-hullpng-ea63fcd2259f001b.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}