A man has pleaded guilty to multiple child exploitation charges, which included sending money to children in exchange for sexually explicit materials.
Nabeen Leigh Singha, 39, of West Orange, pleaded guilty in Camden federal court on Thursday to production and receipt of child pornography as well as possessing prepubescent child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's Office District of New Jersey said in a Monday statement.
Singha had sexual conversations with two minors over the internet between 2021 and 2022 and paid them to create and send him sexually explicit photos and videos, authorities said. During that time, he also paid an intermediary to send him similar materials of four other juveniles, officials said.
When law enforcement searched Singha's phone, they found about 5,000 images and more than 600 videos determined to be child sexual abuse material, authorities said.
Certain files included children under the age of 12, according to federal prosecutors.
The case was part of Project Safe Childhood, an initiative launched by the Department of Justice in 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child exploitation online.
