South Toms River Woman Tried To Frame Husband With Inappropriate Child Photos, Prosecutor Says

(PHOTO: Jeana Ganun; courtesy Ocean County Jail inmate records)

A South Toms River woman who was charged earlier this year in connection with the overdose death of a Toms River man has been indicted on separate charges; she took inappropriate photos of a child to falsely accuse her husband of behaving inappropriately with the child, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s office.

Jeana Ganun, 35, was indicted Friday on a second-degree charge of endangering the welfare of a child, a third-degree charge of invasion of privacy, and a third-degree charge of false incrimination in the case, which dates back to Dec. 17, 2012, said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the county prosecutor’s office.

In the case, Ganun took inappropriate photos of a child and then claimed her husband was the one who took the photos, in an attempt to falsely incriminate him.

In April, Ganun was charged with manslaughter after she allegedly sold heroin to man who overdosed and died in 2013. She was charged under the state’s “Strict Liability in Drug-Induced Deaths” laws.

Eric Mills, 27, of Toms River, died of an overdose inside a Baylor Street residence on May 29, 2013, according to prosecutors. An autopsy provided “critical evidence” linking the heroin mills used before his death to Ganun, Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato said in an April article on NJ.com.

Ganun was charged with causing a drug-induced death and manslaughter.

Since then, Ganun has additionally been charged in a separate incident with threatening to kill a person, witness tampering, and two counts of being an “inconvenient annoyance,” according to inmate records for the Ocean County Jail, where Ganun is being held in lieu of $200,000 bail.