Man Snared in NJ Child Sex Sting Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison

NBC TV 4
November 2, 2019

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Man-Snared-in-NJ-Child-Sex-Sting-Sentenced-to-Seven-Years-in-Prison-564259601.html

A New Jersey man snared in a child sex sting is going back to prison more than 20 years after he was convicted of sexually assault a boy when he was a church counselor.

A judge in Ocean County on Friday sentenced 48-year-old Thomas Blumensteel of Manchester to seven years in prison for luring.

He must serve at least five years before he’ll be eligible for parole and must register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law.

Blumensteel was arrested in September 2018 in a sting in which an undercover detective posed on social media as a 15-year-old boy.