A 34-year-old Riverview man has been sentenced after pleading guilty to a child pornography-related charge in March.
Marcello Colasurdo will serve 90 days in jail intermittently on weekends.
He is under a probation order for two years with strict conditions.
In early 2020, the New Brunswick RCMP Internet Child Exploitation Unit (ICE) RCMP used proactive enforcement to find an individual having conversations with a child online and exchanging sexually explicit material with them.
Police said an investigator posed as a child on an online messaging platform.
On June 4, 2020, police carried out a search warrant at a home in Riverview as part of the investigation and a then 32-year-old man was arrested at the scene.
On March 22, Marcello Colasurdo appeared in Moncton Provincial Court and plead guilty to the charge of making available sexually explicit material to someone believed to be under 16.
A previous charge of child luring was stayed by the court.
“Members of the RCMP’s Internet Child Exploitation Unit regularly conduct proactive enforcement on many different online platforms, including in chat rooms and on social media,” said Cst. Hans Ouellette of the New Brunswick RCMP in an earlier news release related to this case.
“Anyone viewing, sharing, or producing child sexual abuse images can be detected and charged, including through operations where police officers pose as children or like-minded predators to identify and locate these offenders.”
