4 Jailed For Using Child In Transgender Porn Company In Somerset Co.
All four people were sentenced Friday including the 7-year-old's father who flew her across the country to sexually abuse her and film it.
Posted Fri, May 6, 2022 at 2:03 pm ET|Updated Fri, May 6, 2022 at 3:11 pm ET
- Clockwise from top left: Marina Volz, 32, (formerly known as Matthew Volz); Ashley D. Romero (formerly known as Adam Romero), 28; Sean Allen, 54; and Dulcinea Gnecco, 21. (Somerset Couty Prosecutor's Office)
- Marina Volz, 32, (formerly known as Matthew Volz) (NJ Courts)
- Ashley D. Romero (formerly known as Adam Romero), 28 (NJ Courts)
- Sean Allen, 54 (NJ Courts)
- Dulcinea Gnecco, 21. (NJ Courts)
FRANKLIN, NJ — Four people, including a 7-year-old's father, were sentenced Friday in connection with the abuse of the girl and running a "family-owned transgender pornography production studio specializing in amateur, BDSM and taboo fetish content" out of a Somerset County home.
Marina Volz, 32, (formerly known as Matthew Volz) — who now is a woman and is the girl's biological father — flew the 7-year-old girl across the country for the sole purpose of sexually abusing her and filming it.
"If that is not a heinous, cruel, and depraved manner then I don't know what it is," said Somerset County Judge Peter Tober on Friday.
Sean Allen, 54; Volz; Ashley D. Romero (formerly known as Adam Romero), 28; and Dulcinea Gnecco, 21, all of Coburn Lane in Franklin Township were sentenced.
In December 2018, Volz went to Oregon to get the 7-year-old daughter who was living with her mom to assume custody and fly her back to New Jersey to be sexually assaulted and filmed by Volz, Romero, and Allen.
Romero and Allen helped Volz to bring the child to New Jersey.
A video found on multiple electronic items in the Franklin Township home showed Romero and Allen jointly sexually assaulting the child.
In January 2019, an anonymous caller reported the suspected abuse and the child was removed from the home.
A search of the home found neck collars, a kennel cage in the basement, sex toys, and other sexual devices, said Tober.
Police also found firearms, a high-capacity ammunition magazine, and cocaine, said Somerset County Acting Prosecutor Annmarie Taggart.
"Collectively they are a vortex of darkness that sucks the light out of anything and anyone that they touch," said Acting First Assistant Prosecutor W. Brian Stack during the sentencing. "The greatest example is what they did to the victim. A 7-year-old child who was smart, funny, trusting, full of light. In a month's time they converted her into darkness."
"At their core, they are bad people," said Stack.
The grandmother of the child said in a letter read to the court that each of the defendants "killed the victim in this case."
"She can never be the person she would've been," said the grandma. "Marina you brutalized and murdered your own daughter."
Tober noted it would be years before the gravity of the harm inflicted on the girl would be known.
On Friday, Volz and Romero were each sentenced to 25 years in New Jersey State Prison without the eligibility for parole.
Allen was sentenced to 12 years in New Jersey State Prison and eligible for parole after 10 years. Gnecco was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
In addition, Volz, Romero and Allen will be required to register pursuant to Megan's Law and be placed on parole supervision for life upon their release from prison.
Charges:
Volz pled guilty to 10 counts contained in Indictment 21-08-00615-I: Count 1 charging 1 st degree Human Trafficking (N.J.S.A. 2C:13-8a(3), Count 2 charging 1 st degree Conspiracy to Commit Human Trafficking (N.J.S.A. 2C:5-2), Count 3 charging 1 st degree Aggravated Sexual Assault (N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2a(1), Count 4 charging 2 nd degree Conspiracy to Commit Aggravated Sexual Assault (N.J.S.A. 2C:5-2), Count 5 charging 1 st degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child by creating child pornography (N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4b(3), Count 6 charging 2 nd degree Conspiracy to Endanger the Welfare of a Child by creating child pornography (N.J.S.A. 2C:5-2), Count 7 charging 2 nd degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child by engaging in conduct that would impair or debauch the child (N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4a(1), Count 11 charging 1 st degree Aggravated Sexual Assault (N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2a(1), Count 12 charging 2 nd degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child by engaging in conduct that would impair or debauch the child (N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4a(1), and Count 22 charging 4 th degree Possession of a High Capacity Ammunition Magazine (N.J.S.A. 2C:39-3j).
Romero pled guilty to nine counts contained in the Indictment: Count 1 charging 1 st degree Human Trafficking (N.J.S.A. 2C:13-8a(3), Count 2 charging 1 st degree Conspiracy to Commit Human Trafficking (N.J.S.A. 2C:5-2), Count 3 charging 1 st degree Aggravated Sexual Assault (N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2a(1), Count 4 charging 2 nd degree Conspiracy to Commit Aggravated Sexual Assault (N.J.S.A. 2C:5-2), Count 5 charging 1 st degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child by creating child pornography (N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4b(3), Count 6 charging 2 nd degree Conspiracy to Endanger the Welfare of a Child by creating child pornography (N.J.S.A. 2C:5-2), Count 8 charging 2 nd degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child by engaging in conduct that would impair or debauch the child (N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4a(1), Count 16 charging 1 st degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child by creating child pornography (N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4b(3), and Count 20 charging 3 rd degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child by possessing child pornography (N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4b(5)(b)(iii).
Allen pled guilty to five counts contained in the above-captioned Indictment: Count 1 charging 1 st degree Human Trafficking (N.J.S.A. 2C:13-8a(3), Count 2 charging 1 st degree Conspiracy to Commit Human Trafficking (N.J.S.A. 2C:5-2), Count 3 charging 1 st degree Aggravated Sexual Assault (N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2a(1), Count 4 charging 2 nd degree Conspiracy to Commit Aggravated Sexual Assault (N.J.S.A. 2C:5-2) and Count 5 charging 1 st degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child by creating child pornography (N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4b(3).
Gnecco pled guilty two counts: Count 18 charging 2 nd degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child (N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4a(2) and Count 19 charging 3 rd degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child (N.J.S.A. 2C:24-4b(5)(b)(iii).
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