Nabeen Leigh Singha

Introduction

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. United States Attorney Robert Frazer announced the sentence, which closed a case built on Singha’s payments to two minors for explicit videos, an intermediary used to obtain material involving four more victims, and a phone containing nearly 5,000 images of child pornography.

Background Information

The 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. U.S. Attorney Frazer has also announced proactive steps to connect with New Jersey’s families and communities, bringing training opportunities and resources through direct outreach.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Convicted and sentenced. Singha’s conduct ran from July 2021 through March 2022 — paying two minors for explicit videos and an intermediary for material involving four more — and drew 600 months.

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 — materials that included depictions of prepubescent minors under 12 years old.

Public Reaction and Consequences

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. Alongside the sentence, Frazer’s office pointed families and community members to prevention resources: the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey can be contacted at [email protected] to arrange prevention programming, and further 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 investigation and the outreach push together frame the office’s child-exploitation posture: prosecute the conduct, then arm the public against it.

Current Status

Singha is serving the 600-month term, with 10 years of supervised release to follow. The government was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jake A. Nasar of the Health Care Fraud and Opioid Enforcement Unit in Newark; defense counsel was Jonathan F. Marshall, Esq., of Freehold, New Jersey. The charges — production, receipt, and possession of child pornography — were resolved by the October 13, 2026 judgment, and the release records no matters pending beyond the sentence itself.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The arithmetic of the sentence is the story: sentenced at 39 to 600 months, Singha would be 89 before supervised release even begins — a term the release’s own title reduces to 50 years. The case file documents a method — direct payments to two minors, an intermediary paid for four more, and a personal phone holding nearly 5,000 images and 620 videos, some depicting prepubescent minors under 12. Project Safe Childhood, the framework under which the case was brought, exists to marshal federal, state and local resources against exactly this conduct, and the 50-year outcome shows what its prosecutions can produce at the top end.

Sources

U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey, “Essex County Man Sentenced to 50 Years for Online Enticement of Minors and Child Pornography Crimes” — source