Pelham 23-Year-Old Faces Felony Child Exploitation Charges: DOJ

PELHAM, NY — A Pelham resident has been charged with federal child exploitation chages as the result of an undercover sting.

Sasha May, who was previously known as Owen May, 23, of Pelham, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with distribution of child pornography, Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Robert Fuller, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced.

May appeared this week before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in New Haven and was released on a $100,000 bond into home confinement with electronic monitoring.

Investigators said that between December 2023 and May 2024, May engaged in online conversations with an undercover law enforcement officer on the messaging platforms Kik and Whisper. In those conversations, May detailed her sexual interest in children and distributed child pornography.

The charge of distribution of child pornography carries a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of five years and a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years.

This matter is being investigated by the FBI’s Child Exploitation Task Force, the Greenwich Police Department and the Pelham Police Department. The Task Force includes federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.

This prosecution is part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Project Safe Childhood Initiative, which is aimed at protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation.

More information about Project Safe Childhood can be found here.

Cases of child exploitation can be reported here.