Already imprisoned former N.J. school IT employee sentenced for child pornography distribution – NJ.com

A former school information technology employee already serving a federal prison sentence for receiving child pornography has been sentenced at the state level for his conviction on a similar charge.

Matthew Wolny, 43, of Jackson, received a five-year term Friday from Superior Court Judge Michael Collins, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said Tuesday. It will run concurrently to an eight-year term that Wolny has been serving at a federal prison in Mississippi since August 2019.

Wolny pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography in Ocean County Superior Court in November 2018 but sentencing was delayed until his federal case concluded.

He was arrested in September 2013 when investigators executing a search warrant at his home seized computer equipment that turned up evidence Wolny was manufacturing, trading and possessing thousands of digital pornographic files including graphic pictures and movies, authorities said then.

A search of seven electronic devices found in his home turned up 2,000 images and approximately 1,600 videos of child sexual abuse, prosecutors said.

Also a former volunteer assistant band director at Brick Memorial High School, Wolny was later found to have recorded children in a locker room at a YMCA in Ocean County by hiding a camera in his gym bag. Authorities later learned he videotaped students while chaperoning a trip to Maryland. He was charged at the federal level for those incidents.

Wolny, formerly of Egg Harbor Township, will also be required to register as a sex offender when he is released from prison. He was already subject to 10 years of supervised release.

Hired by the Howell school district in 2000, Wolny was suspended following his arrest and later fired.

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Jeff Goldman may be reached at jeff_goldman@njadvancemedia.com.