Bensalem Township Police arrested 27-year-old Valeed Anjum at his home on Thursday, October 1, 2026, after executing a search warrant that led to a confession: detectives say he admitted to meeting and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in New Jersey earlier this year. Investigators allege Anjum used Snapchat and the gaming platform Roblox to exchange explicit photographs with at least five girls between the ages of 10 and 15 across the country, paying some of them for the images.
According to CBS News Philadelphia, police say Anjum operated under the alias Puma and used the Snapchat usernames poomdoom69 and brain.rotty to contact his alleged victims. The outlet reports he has been charged in Bucks County with several counts of unlawful contact with a minor, multiple counts of sexual abuse of a child, and related offenses. He also faces a charge of aggravated sexual assault involving a victim under age 13 in Gloucester County, New Jersey, stemming from his alleged admission to detectives.
The search warrant executed at Anjum's Bensalem residence on October 1 led directly to his arrest, according to CRIMEWATCH, which reports he was taken into custody before confessing to the New Jersey assault during questioning. Bensalem Police formally charged him with first-degree felony counts of Unlawful Contact with a Minor, second-degree felony counts of Sexual Abuse of Children, and a third-degree felony count of Criminal Use of Communication Facility, the same report notes.
Charges Carry Decades of Potential Prison Time
The New Jersey charge is especially severe. Under state statute N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2, a conviction involving a victim under 13 carries a sentence of 25 years to life, with 25 years of parole ineligibility, according to the law firm Rosenberg | Perry & Associates. The offense falls under New Jersey's No Early Release Act, which requires offenders to serve at least 85 percent of their sentence before becoming eligible for parole.
Pennsylvania's unlawful contact with a minor statute, meanwhile, does not require a physical meeting or a completed assault to apply. Per the McGarrigle Law Firm, a single electronic message sent with sexual intent is enough to trigger a felony count under 18 Pa.C.S. § 6318, which carries up to seven years in prison per count. That framework is designed to let police intervene before an in-person meeting ever happens.
Million-Dollar Bail and a Bucks County Courtroom
Anjum was remanded to the Bucks County Correctional Facility with bail set at 10% of $10 million, equivalent to $1 million, per CBS News Philadelphia's reporting.
He was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Joseph Falcone at Magisterial District Court 07-1-12 in Bensalem. Investigators believe there may be additional victims; the affidavit reportedly describes six girls. Bensalem Police have asked anyone with information about the Snapchat or Roblox accounts involved to contact Detective Ryan Kolb at 215-633-3746.
Part of a Troubling National Pattern
The case fits into what child safety advocates describe as an explosion of online enticement targeting kids. Online-enticement reports submitted to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's CyberTipline nearly doubled, jumping from 292,951 in the first half of 2024 to 518,720 during the same period in 2025, according to MissingKids.org. NCMEC safety experts have also flagged that predators frequently use children's gaming platforms like Roblox to build rapport, sometimes offering in-game currency such as Robux in exchange for explicit content.
Roblox itself is facing mounting legal scrutiny unrelated to this case. In January 2026, more than 80 federal lawsuits alleging the company failed to protect minors from grooming and exploitation were consolidated into a nationwide multidistrict litigation.
This is not the first high-profile child exploitation case Bensalem police have handled this year. Hoodline previously reported that a local father and son were arrested in April after a NCMEC CyberTipline referral led to a search warrant uncovering child sexual abuse material at their Bensalem home, with both held on $2 million bail each.
