Little Egg Sex Offender Sentenced For Soliciting Nude Pics From Minor: AG

TRENTON, NJ — A registered sex offender from Little Egg Harbor was sentenced to prison for soliciting explicit photos from a minor, U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger said.

David M. Frew, 42, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, officials said. He was also sentenced to five years of supervised release.

He pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of online enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual conduct last summer.

In 2017, Frew, already a registered sex offender at the time, used an online messaging service to convince a minor to send sexually explicit photos, according to court documents.

Frew was previously convicted of three counts of unlawful contact with a minor and one count of criminal use of a computer in Pennsylvania in 2008, Sellinger said.

At the time, Frew sent sexually explicit images or videos to who he believed to be minors, but were actually investigators in the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Child Predator Unit, according to authorities.

Also in 2008, Frew was convicted in New Jersey of endangering the welfare of children due to his possession of child pornography, authorities said.