Former Saipan HS band teacher pleads guilty to possessing child pornography
Former Saipan high school band teacher David Matthew Frahm has pleaded guilty before a court in Malaysia to possession of child pornography.
Frahm, who was arrested in Malaysia back in February for child pornography charges and sexual harassment charges, pleaded guilty yesterday to amended charges; specifically possessing child pornography.
According to international media outlets, the charge carries a maximum sentence of three years, a fine, or both.
In addition, Frahm has pleaded not guilty to the sexual harassment charges filed against him after allegedly producing sexual material when he allegedly filmed a minor showering in her home.
Frahm is also facing overstaying charges for overstaying over 1,380 days.
Last month, the U.S. government filed a superseding indictment in the U.S. District Court for the NMI against Frahm after he was arrested in Malaysia.
Frahm allegedly left the CNMI sometime before or after he was charged with one count of attempted sexual exploitation of a child back in 2023.
Following his arrest in Malaysia, assistant U.S.attorney Eric O’Malley filed a superseding indictment against Frahm, adding one count of possession of child pornography and one count of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places. That’s on top of the existing charge of attempted sexual exploitation of a child.
The superseding indictment replaces the indictment issued last September 2023.
In the “attempted sexual exploitation of a child” charge, the indictment states that Frahm attempted to take a photo of a minor while using the toilet at the high school he worked for, Marianas High School, back in March 2019.
As for the one count of possession of child pornography, Frahm was allegedly caught in March 2019 of possessing a computer file that depicted a minor child engaged in sexually explicit conduct. The indictment states that the image was created in Ukraine and distributed via the internet.
For the one count of illicit sexual conduct in foreign places, Frahm was allegedly caught producing child pornography in Malaysia.
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