NEWARK, N.J. – An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced in connection with his online enticement and exploitation of minors, United States Attorney Robert Frazer announced.
Nabeen Leigh Singha, 39, of West Orange, New Jersey, was sentenced on October 13, 2026, to 600 months’ imprisonment followed by 10 years’ supervised release before U.S. District Court Chief Judge Renée M. Bumb in Camden federal court on charges of production, receipt, and possession of child pornography.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:From July 2021 through March 2022, Singha exchanged sexually explicit messages with two minor victims and paid them to create sexually explicit videos and images of themselves to send to Singha over the internet. During that time-period, Singha also communicated with an intermediary and paid that intermediary to send sexually explicit videos and images of four additional minor victims.
Law enforcement searched and seized Singha’s phone and found nearly 5,000 images and 620 videos depicting child pornography. These materials included depictions of prepubescent minors under 12 years old. United States Attorney Frazer credited special agents and members of the Child Exploitation Group of Homeland Security Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Michael S. McCarthy, with the investigation. This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit: https://www.justice.gov/psc. U.S. Attorney Frazer has announced proactive steps to connect with New Jersey’s families and communities, bringing training opportunities and resources through direct outreach. Organizations and community members interested in arranging prevention programming or learning more about available resources can contact the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey at USANJ.
[email protected]. Moreover, prevention resources are available through the Department of Justice's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section Prevention webpage and the Department of Homeland Security’s Know2Protect Campaign.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jake A. Nasar of the Health Care Fraud and Opioid Enforcement Unit in Newark. ###Defense counsel: Jonathan F. Marshall, Esq., Freehold, NJ