The chief of firefighters in Utah and the judge shared disturbing chats about the sexual abuse of children, the accusations say that

Tremonton, Utah (Ksl.com) – a judge in Utah was charged on Monday With the sexual exploitation of children and a head of firefighters in Utah was accused of similar offenses on Tuesday.

Now, the judicial documents say that both men have engaged in very disturbing conversations about the sexual abuse of children, and the two were also involved in a sexual relationship.

In addition, investigators say that the judge was assigned to the criminal file of the fireman’s head and issued it for bail in January, despite the request to be detained without bail.

Ned Brady Hansen, Tremonton’s firefighter head, 54 years old, was charged on Tuesday In the court of district 1, with eight charges of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, a crime of degree I. Hansen’s accusations were filed one day after the judge of justice in District 1, Kevin Robert Christensen, aged 64, was accused of seven sexual crimes and involved children.

The accusations against Hansen claim that he had distributed an explicit video of a 10 -year -old girl in at least six occasions and shared an explicit photo of two 12 -year -old girls in at least two other occasions. Christensen is accused of sexually attractive minors through a chat application several times.

Hansen was reserved in the prison in Elder Box County on January 27, after the Bright City police executed a search warrant at his home. Several devices were confiscated by the police for processing at that time.

When Hansen was initially arrested, investigators asked for a judge – Christensen – to keep Hansen in arrest, without the possibility of posting bail.

“The application of the law requested that the defendant, Hansen be detained without bail because of the risk he presented to children in the community and did not know the sexual relationship between (Hansen) and Christensen,” the statement said in a court of arrest submitted to the court in District 1.

“Christensen did not reveal that he had engaged in sexually accused chats with children with the defendant Hansen, and law enforcement believes that this fact has significantly affected Christensen’s decisions when he released Hansen,” says the statement.

The investigation into Hansen’s alleged offenses began in November 2024, when the National Center for Bonded and Exploited Children received information that “a certain Internet application was engaged in the distribution of sexual abuse materials”. The law enforcement could then connect the account to Hansen, collecting the state documents.

After the detectives discovered explicit videos of a girl Preteen, Hansen “acknowledged that he had the identified videos … and was the account subscriber,” says an arrest report.

While looking at the evidence, the police later discovered that Hansen “had an extensive number of chats” with Christensen “who were sexual graph and involved discussions about the sexual abuse of children”, according to the arrest declaration.

In those chats with Christensen, Hansen “expressed interest” for the sexual abuse of children he knew and offered to “share” and allow Christensen to sexually abuse them.

Hansen also “discussed that he met this Internet user (Christensen) in real life to get involved in sexual acts with this other user,” according to the arrest warrant.

Christensen was accused of two charges on Monday to attract an minor using the Internet, a second -degree crime and a third -degree crime; In addition, two accusations of treatment in harmful materials of a minor, three charges of attempted sexual exploitation of a minor and obstruction of justice, third -degree crimes.

The judge, who was placed on unpaid leave, is accused of using a request for chat “to communicate with others about the abuse of sexual abuse of children, the sexual exploitation of children and attract children,” according to taxation documents.

Christensen discussed many personal details about himself and sent more photos with him and his family members in those chats, including explicit photos with himself, the state of the state. The judicial documents describe graphic sexual conversations with adolescent girls.

Investigators say Hansen also discussed sexual abuse of children in several internet chats they discovered. Hansen said he enjoys sexual abuse materials on children, but tries to “stay smoothly,” says the documents that accuse. “In another discussion, the defendant (Hansen) states that” he would “fully a child” if (he) could get rid of him. “

In an interview with the police, Hansen said “he had a pornography addiction and that in the last few years he has developed tastes for younger women,” according to tax documents.

Hansen started his career in South Ogden and took a position of assistant fireman in Logan in 2000, according to the Logan site. Hansen was chief Jackson Hole Fire/EMS from 2017 to September 2022 when he retired and moved back to Logan, Jackson Hole News and Guide reported.

The head of firefighters was employed by Tremonton in August 2023. The manager of Tremonton, Bill Cobabe, confirmed that Hansen was fired on Monday, after the city officials heard about his arrest.