Kayan Frazier, Child Pornography Production, New Jersey 2023

A former New Jersey Department of Child Protection and Permanency (NJDCP&P) employee has been sentenced to 250 months in prison for producing images of child sexual abuse.

Kayan Frazier, 29, previously pleaded guilty by videoconference before U.S. District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez to one count of producing images of child pornography.

Frazier, of Atlantic County, New Jersey, was employed as a case worker at NJDCP&P at the time of his arrest.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court, Frazier was identified as the sender of images of child sexual abuse distributed via Tumblr. On April 12, 2019, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office obtained a search warrant for Frazier’s residence and, while executing the warrant, observed Frazier in the company of an underage boy. Law enforcement officers recovered thousands of additional images of child sexual abuse on Frazier’s cellular telephone and other electronic media, which included images of the boy taken in Frazier’s apartment.

Frazier admitted that he took the images with a cellular telephone.

In addition to the prison term, Judge Rodriguez sentenced Frazier to a lifetime term of supervised release. Restitution will be determined at a later date.

Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig credited special agents of the FBI Atlantic City Resident Agency Human Trafficking Crimes Against Children Task Force, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge George M. Crouch Jr. in Newark; the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office, under the direction of Acting Prosecutor Cary Shill; the Atlantic County Sheriff’s Office, under the direction of Sheriff Eric Scheffler; the New Jersey State Police, under the direction of Col. Patrick J. Callahan, and the New Jersey Human Services Police, with the investigation leading to today’s sentencing.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Diana Vondra Carrig of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Camden office.

Defense counsel: Lisa Evans Lewis Esq., Assistant Federal Public Defender, Camden

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