Roger Tees
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY
MAYS LANDING – Roger B. Tees, 74, of Somers Point pleaded guilty Feb. 28 to endangering the welfare of children by distributing child sexual abuse materials online, Atlantic County Prosecutor William Reynolds said in a press release.
Tees pleaded guilty before Judge Pamela D’Arcy. The prosecution recommended he be sentenced to a four-year prison term and placed on parole supervision for life. He will also be required to register as an offender under Megan’s Law.
According to the prosecutor, Tees used his Yahoo account to save child sexual abuse material to his cloud account. Upon scanning the content, Yahoo reported it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which prompted a law enforcement investigation by the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office High-Tech Crimes Unit. The investigation revealed that Tees was sharing the content on Telegram, a popular instant message and file sharing application, and saving the material to his Yahoo account.
Following a search warrant on his residence, the High-Tech Crimes Unit, assisted by Homeland Security Investigations Atlantic City and the Somers Point Police Department, uncovered numerous videos and photographs depicting children engaged in prohibited sexual acts on Tees’ digital devices.
The investigation did not reveal any evidence that Tees engaged in prohibited conduct while working in an official capacity as the director of the Office Emergency Management for Somers Point, nor while working in any role as a public servant.
Sentencing is tentatively scheduled for May 9.
Assistant Prosecutor Joseph Remy represents the State in this matter.
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