A West Orange man pleaded guilty in Camden federal court in December 2025 after admitting he paid two minors to create and send him sexually explicit photos and videos, and paid a separate intermediary for similar material involving four other juveniles. The charges involved production, receipt and possession of child pornography, and an investigation uncovered thousands of illegal files on his phone.
According to nj.com, 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. During that same window, he also paid an intermediary to send him similar materials involving four other juveniles, the outlet reported.
Singha, of West Orange, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in December 2025.
Thousands of Illegal Files Recovered From His Phone
Once law enforcement seized Singha's phone, investigators found about 5,000 images and more than 600 videos determined to be child sexual abuse material, per the same nj.com report. Certain files included children under the age of 12, according to the outlet's reporting.
The investigation was prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a Department of Justice initiative launched in 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child exploitation online, nj.com noted. The program coordinates federal, state and local resources to locate, apprehend and prosecute child exploiters and to identify and rescue victims.
How This Sentence Compares
Federal child exploitation sentences in cases tied to New Jersey and nearby jurisdictions have varied widely. An Ocean County airman was sentenced to 121 months' imprisonment for receiving child pornography. Separately, a New Jersey man was sentenced to 350 months in prison followed by lifetime supervised release for distributing child sexual abuse material on a dark-web site, per the FBI.
In another case, a Texas man was sentenced to 25 years in prison in connection with the exploitation of a child and production of child pornography, the FBI said in a separate release. A Virginia man was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
A Broader Pattern of Online Exploitation
The case lands amid what federal data describes as a sprawling national problem. In 2025, Internet Crimes Against Children task forces conducted nearly 347,000 investigations, which led to the arrest of more than 17,000 offenders, according to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
A congressional research summary also noted that the Government Accountability Office found the Justice Department did not fully include nine of 19 statutorily required elements in its 2023 strategy report on combating child exploitation, according to a Congressional Research Service product. That oversight gap illustrates the scrutiny federal anti-exploitation efforts face even as individual prosecutions like Singha's move forward under Project Safe Childhood.
