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Galaxy Gymnastics Owner Charged With Kiddie Porn

Galaxy Gymnastics1 (800x617)The owner of a Freehold gymnastics facility that caters to teen and pre-teen girls was arrested on Monday and charged with two counts of third degree possession of child pornography, according to Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni.

Ronald L. Charles, 51, of Love Lane in Freehold Township attempted to send multiple images on child pornography from his personal email address, according a tip CyberTip received by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office Computer Crimes Unit and the New Jersey Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Regional Task Force from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

A search warrant was issued leading to the seizure of a computer from Charles’ home office.  A subsequent examination of that computer revealed numerous images of child pornography. The investigation was conducted by Detective Richard Hudak, of the Freehold Township Police Department and ICAC Regional Task Force, in conjunction with the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office Computer Crimes Unit.

Charles in the owner of Galaxy Gymnastics, 331 Fairfield Rd, Freehold, according to Gramiccioni. Charles also the contact person for City Express Exterminating, located at the same address, according to an Angie’s List posting.

Charles Webster, spokesperson for the Prosecutors’s Office told MMM that there is no evidence that any of the children who participate in Galaxy Gymnastics programs are among Charles’ victims.

Charles was released on $40,000 bail, with no 10% option, as set by Freehold Municipal Court Judge Nicole Sonnenblick,  He faces 15 years in prison, five years on each count, if convicted.

 

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Posted: December 30th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Freehold, Monmouth County, Monmouth County News, Monmouth County Prosecutor | Tags: , , , , , , , | 16 Comments »

16 Comments on “Galaxy Gymnastics Owner Charged With Kiddie Porn”

  1. Barry said at 4:10 pm on December 30th, 2015:

    Fairifled Rd is it a Freehold Zip and a Howell location or is part of Fairfiled in Freehold Township?

  2. Concerned mom said at 9:14 pm on December 30th, 2015:

    Why would you post a picture of 2 young girls from this gym instead of the owner in question? Even though their faces are blocked, it was still a bad call 🙁

  3. Concerned mother said at 12:45 am on December 31st, 2015:

    Please… As the mother of one of the girls in this picture… Please take it down.

  4. concerned Parent said at 3:32 am on December 31st, 2015:

    Why in the world would you post two girls on the cover story. It’s just plain wrong. Why attach these innocent girls to this story. Ridiculous!

  5. Maureen said at 7:49 am on December 31st, 2015:

    OMG! Why is there a picture of these two children attached to this story? Although it’s important to get this story out to the public, this picture is VERY inappropriate. Can’t you just replace it with a picture of the outside of the gym?

  6. Maureen said at 7:52 am on December 31st, 2015:

    My niece has attended this gym. I would be horrified if one of the kids in this picture was her. Please…put HIS face/image out there, but not any of his students.

  7. why a face said at 11:37 am on December 31st, 2015:

    hey moms, why “his” face? Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law by a jury of peers, right? No faces seems legit to me.

  8. Name (required) said at 2:06 pm on December 31st, 2015:

    Please take the picture down.. The gymnastics world is very small… This is horrible…

  9. There are just said at 2:47 pm on December 31st, 2015:

    too many sickos out there, period: more screenings are needed for anybody working near kids- and, if and when convicted, just registering as a sex offender doesn’t seem to be cutting down on such despicable behaviors: once innocence is stolen from a child, the rest of their life is a battle to get past it- no one deserves that, and those who are guilty perhaps should be ordered to be surgically altered,so they can no longer engage in the act,or even reproduce!! If more examples of dire consequences were made of pigs like these, perhaps some would think twice before just “pleasuring” their sick,selfish selves! We need to demand stronger punishments for acts against kids!

  10. Kathy Baratta said at 3:25 pm on December 31st, 2015:

    Art,

    What the hell are you doing?! You have a distraught mother begging you to take down the pic and yet it still sits there.

    Just because you don’t know/recognize the young girls in the pic you posted doesn’t mean their friends and fellow students won’t.

    You are setting two young girls up for gross speculation for the sake of a, gratuitous, does-nothing-for-the-story-photo.

    Have you no shame, sir? At long last, have you no shame?

  11. Mom said at 7:17 am on January 1st, 2016:

    My daughter is a gymnast at another gym. Before I even read the article I was horrified to see that you used a pic of two gymnasts from the gym. Had that been one of my daughters, you’d be hearing more than just a complaint on this feed. Please remove this photo–its completely inappropriate. Poor girls.

  12. Art Gallagher said at 8:04 am on January 1st, 2016:

    I think you’re all crazy and I doubt that you are really mothers of gymnasts. If you are, God help your daughters.

    Where do you think I got that photo? Galaxy’s web site and facebook page is what you should be concerned about, if what you are concerned about is photos. There are a lot more pedophiles trolling those sites now than are reading this site, I guarantee it.

    You all should be horrified by the picture. It’s horrific. Not that I used it, but the fact that a child pornographer is using it, and hundreds of others that don’t protect the identity of the children, to to promote his business and who knows what else.

    WAKE UP

  13. Art Gallagher said at 8:11 am on January 1st, 2016:

    And Kathy,

    You should know better. The hundreds of children who have been at risk at that business ARE THE STORY

  14. Kathy Barata said at 1:29 pm on January 1st, 2016:

    I’ve heard some convoluted logic in my day but you, Art, take the cake.

    Inasmuch as context seems to completely elude you I am not going to waste any more time. You either know what’s right or you don’t.

  15. Art Gallagher said at 5:48 pm on January 1st, 2016:

    Hmmm.

    I wrote the story including the selection of and editing of the photo and Kathy Barata, with one T, wants to determine the context.

    Talk about convoluted

  16. Kathy Baratta said at 7:46 pm on January 1st, 2016:

    No, “Hmmm” about it. My keyboard sticks and the second “t” didn’t type.

    I’m not quite sure what your point is in the preceding post (or what you know is a typo has to do with “convoluted” for that matter but, whatever).

    Anyway, you have my IP address so you knew it was me in my followup post.