New York Man Sentenced To 360 Months’ Imprisonment For Production Of Child Pornography

SCRANTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Alkayan Khan, age 37, of Ozone Park, New York, was sentenced today to 360 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Julia K. Munley for one count of production of a visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. 

According to United States Attorney Gerard M. Karam, Khan previously pleaded guilty to one count of production of visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct.  Khan admitted that on September 28, 2021, he coerced a minor victim to create and then send him photographs of herself engaging in sexually explicit conduct.  Khan, a family friend of the minor victim’s family, had used his position of trust within the family to engage in a years’ long pattern of abuse against the minor victim.  Ultimately, the minor victim became pregnant with Khan’s child and Khan coerced the minor victim to falsely report that she had been raped in her middle school’s bathroom by an unknown assailant. The victim, upon being interviewed by detectives from the Pocono Mountain Regional Police, admitted that Khan was her child’s father and that he had coerced her to concoct the story.

The charges stem from an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, the Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department, and the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office.  Assistant United States Attorney James M. Buchanan prosecuted the case.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit  www.usdoj.gov/psc.     

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