Bensalem Man Charged 2nd Time For Child Pornography

BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA —A 29-year-old township man has been charged with possessing child pornography, three years after police arrested him for the same crime.

Kevin Nguyen, 29, was charged with Unlawful Contact with a Minor, Sexual Abuse of Children, Criminal Use of a Communication Facility (all felonies), and a misdemeanor charge of Corruption of Minors, the Bensalem Township Police Department said.

Nguyen turned himself in on the arrest warrant and was arraigned by District Justice Michael Gallagher on Monday. He was sent to the Bucks County Correctional Facility on 10 percent of $500,000 bail.

In 2021, Bensalem Police arrested Nguyen and charged him with Possession of Child Pornography. Nguyen pleaded guilty and served time in the Bucks County Correctional Facility and was registered as a Tier 1 Sex Offender for 15 years.

After serving his sentence, he was released.

In June, Bensalem Police received a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC.) The tip stated that an IMVU user was messaging the account of a 13-year-old female with various sexually explicit messages.

IMVU is a social media app where users create a character or "Avatar" and interact with each other in a virtual environment.

The messages were very graphic, stating that he wanted to have sexual intercourse with the juvenile and commit various other sexual acts on her. Bensalem Police traced the source of the IMVU user's account to Nguyen's home on Cricket Lane.

During the execution of the search warrant, Nguyen admitted to sending graphic messages to the juvenile in IMVU.

He also told investigators that he used another social media app, Discord, to engage in sexually explicit messaging relationships with underage females.

A search of that app revealed an extensive messaging relationship with a 14-year-old girl where they discussed having sexual intercourse in graphic detail and sharing sexually explicit images.