Naugatuck Man Charged With Possession, Production Of Child Pornography: Feds

NAUGATUCK, CT — A Naugatuck man accused of demanding "sexually explicit images and videos" from a minor appeared before a judge for a bond hearing Wednesday in New Haven, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut David Sullivan and P.J. O'Brien, a special agent in charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced in a news release.

According to court documents and statements made in court, an eight-year-old boy in Oregon contacted Sean Sayer, 22, of Naugatuck, by text message in March and asked him if he was "@fornight_legends" on TikTok, to which Sayer responded affirmatively.

Over the next three days, Sayer exchanged more than 1,300 messages with the minor in which Sayer "repeatedly and aggressively demanded sexually explicit images and videos" of the minor in exchange for playing Fortnite with him online, according to Sullivan and O'Brien.

According to Sullivan and O'Brien, the minor sent Sayer "at least 15 videos constituting child sexual abuse material or child pornography."

Sayer was arrested on June 18. A preliminary forensic review of his phone revealed screenshots of Snapchat conversations Sayer had with dozens of additional minors whom Sayer is accused of coercing or enticing to send him sexually explicit photos of themselves, according to Sullivan and O'Brien.

Sayer has been charged on a federal criminal complaint with production of child pornography, coercion and enticement of a minor, receipt of child pornography, possession of child pornography and transfer of obscene material to a minor.

He was released on a $150,000 bond into home detention with location monitoring and is prohibited from accessing the internet and communicating or having contact with minors, Sullivan and O'Brien said.