Crime & Safety

South Orange Doctor Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison

Rocco Martino, 43, of South Orange, N.J., was sentenced today to 84 months in prison

, 43, was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for making available images and videos of pre-pubescent children being sexually abused – sometimes violently – to others over the Internet, U.S. Attorney Fishman announced.
 
Martino, a doctor who recently practiced internal and sports medicine with the Summit Medical Group in Berkeley Heights, N.J., in January 2012 to an Information charging him with one count of receipt and distribution of child pornography.  He entered his guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Williams H. Walls, who also imposed the sentence today in Newark federal court.

Martino worked as a specialist in sports medicine and integrative medicine. He is a graduate of Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Princeton University, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He served his residency in internal medicine at Brown Medical School and completed a fellowship in sports medicine at the Jersey Shore Medical Center.

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