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Last Updated:March 09, 2025, 19:44 IST
Kevin Robert Christensen used KIK to send sexual images and videos to girls aged 13 and 16.
Kevin Robert Christensen, a judge from Utah, sent explicit images and lewd chats to teenage girls. (IMAGE: X/@antifaoperative)
A veteran judge from the US state of Utah was arrested after the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI) found out that he allegedly sent sexual images and videos to young girls in an online messaging platform. The FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force uncovered several sexually explicit chat threads with young kids on his KIK account.
The judge, Kevin Robert Christensen, 64, used KIK to discuss his interest in children with other adults. He also sent them graphic images of minors, according to the West Valley City Police Department and Utah-based newspaper Longview News-Journal.
Christensen used to take pride in his active involvement with youth.
“The position of trust he holds in the community and the actions he undertook while in this position significantly undermine the confidence of the community in the legitimacy of the criminal justice system," the police report accessed by broadcaster FOX13 said.
The judge was from Box Elder County. The investigation was launched last month after they learned that he used KIK to talk about sexually abusing children and spoke about inappropriate topics with underage girls.
They said that he engaged in “graphic sexual chats" with a teenage user who was a 13-year-old girl in November last year and then sent her a video of an adult male performing a sexual act. He then told her that the conversation was a “mere fantasy".
He sent a 16-year-old girl lewd image after he received one from the child, according to a separate report by ABC4.
The sexagenarian jurist was charged with two counts of enticing a minor, two counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a minor and two counts of dealing materials harmful to a minor, all felonies and is being held without bail at Davis County Jail.
He has been working as a judge since May 1996.
Location :Washington D.C., United States of America (USA)
First Published:March 09, 2025, 19:44 IST
News world FBI Arrests 64-Year-Old US Judge For Sending Lewd Images To Underage Girls
