John Yorke, 49, of Wantage, pleaded guilty to child endangerment this past November.
NEWTON -- A Sussex County man who was among 40 arrested in a child pornography crackdown in August was recently sentenced to five years probation, authorities said.
John Yorke, 49, of Wantage John Yorke, 49, of Wantage, pleaded guilty in November to endangering the welfare of a child by possessing an item depicting the sexual exploitation or abuse of a child, the Sussex County Prosecutor's Office said in a news release.
Yorke was arrested as part of "Operation Statewide," a six-month, multi-department investigation that tracked images of the sexual exploitation of minors circulating on Internet file-sharing networks to individual IP addresses, authorities have said.
Forty men from all 21 counties in the Garden State were arrested in the investigation.
Yorke was sentenced on Jan. 6 to five years probation with the conditions he obtain a general educational development, have no unsupervised contact with minors, undergo a psychiatric evaluation, have no Internet usage except for employment and release all computer passwords to probation, the prosecutor's office said.
He was also order to pay mandatory fines and fees totaling $905.
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