David Frahm
FOLLOWING a request from Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric O’Malley, Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona of the District Court for the NMI unsealed the indictment against David Matthew Frahm, 46.
“Because the government states the need to seal the documents and proceedings in this case is no longer present, the government’s motion is granted. All documents and proceedings are unsealed and will remain unsealed until further order of the court,” Judge Manglona said in an order on Wednesday.
The grand jury charged Frahm with one count of attempted sexual exploitation of a child, one count of possession of child pornography, and one count of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places.
According to the superseding indictment issued on Feb. 27, 2024, “In or about March 2019 in the District of the Northern Mariana Islands and elsewhere, defendant David Matthew Frahm did attempt to employ, use, persuade, induce, entice, and coerce a minor with the intent that the minor engage in sexually explicit conduct lor the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct, knowing or having reason to know that such visual depiction will be transported or transmitted using a means or facility of interstate commerce, and that visual depiction would be produced or transported using materials that have been mailed, shipped, or transported in or affecting interstate commerce, including by computer, to wit, by attempting to take digital pictures of a minor using a toilet in the high school where defendant was employed, by using a mobile computer device that travelled in interstate commerce and was capable of connecting to the internet, in violation of Title 18, United States 7 Code, Sections 2251(a) and (e).”
Moreover, on or about March 27, 2019, “in the District of the Northern Mariana Islands, defendant David Matthew Frahm knowingly possessed and accessed with intent to view material that contained an image of child pornography as defined in Title 18, United States Code, Section 13 2256(8)(A), that was mailed, or shipped or transported using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce and in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce by any means, including by computer, to wit, by knowingly possessing a computer file that depicts a minor child engaged in sexually explicit conduct, as that term is defined in Title 18, United States Code, Section 17 2256(2)(A)(v), said image having been created in Ukraine and distributed via the internet, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252A(a)(5)(B) and (b)(2).”
In addition, on or about February 1, 2024, “defendant David Matthew Frahm was a citizen of the United States of America who was residing in Malaysia, a foreign country, who engaged in illicit sexual conduct with another person, to wit, by producing child pornography, as defined in Title 18, United States Code, Section 2256(8)(A), by producing a visual depiction by video of sexually explicit conduct that involved the use of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, as defined in Title 18, United States Code. Section 2256(2)(A)(v), in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2423(c) and (f),” the indictment stated.
Frahm is a former Marianas High School music teacher, Variety learned. Recently, he was charged in Langkawi, Malaysia for sexually harassing an 11-year-old girl. He pled not guilty to the charge of producing sexual material of the minor. Frahm was accused of filming the girl when she was bathing in her home. The girl was his neighbor.
