child luring

A 51 year old East Orange man has been arrested and charged with luring three teens into his car in Atlantic City.

The "concerned citizens" who assisted police are members of groups who hunt people down online in a manner similar to the long-running Dateline NBC segment "To Catch A Predator."

An attempted child luring incident in Ocean County this week by a registered sex offender serves as a lesson in keeping kids safe on the streets.

A pair of New Jersey Senators say an increase in reported child luring in New Jersey led them to introduce a bill that would set tougher penalties for attempted child abductions. The measure sponsored by Sen. Dick Codey and Sen. Bob Gordon gained the approval of a Senate committee yesterday.

There's been a rash of attempted child luring incidents in Jersey over the past few weeks, which has prompted one lawmaker to introduce a measure to toughen penalties for anyone convicted of trying to abduct or lure a child.

Police in New Milford have received another report of an attempted child luring. It's the latest in nearly a dozen similar incidents in the area since mid-September.

Police in northern New Jersey have set up checkpoints and stepped up patrols after a number of reported child luring attempts.

A Morris County accountant was sentenced to five years in prison for attempted luring and attempted endangering after making efforts to have sexual meetings with persons he believed to be 13- and 14-year-old girls, according to Atlantic County Prosecutor Jim McClain.

A New Jersey police officer who admitted seeking nude photos of a 13-year-old girl online has been sentenced to six years in state prison on Friday.