Dartmouth man caught watching child porn on plane, arranging sex with 5-year-old, prosecutor says

Jed Cohen, 74, of Dartmouth, is charged with possession of child pornography, dissemination of photographs of the sexual or intimate parts of a child and payment for sex with a child under 18, the Suffolk County prosecutor said.

A judge ordered him held on $10,000 bail. He will have to wear a GPS monitoring device and stay home if he posts bail.

A passenger on the flight from Nashville to Boston on Tuesday, July 16, alerted crew members that they had seen Cohen exchanging photos and having a “sickening” conversation with someone on WhatsApp, the prosecutor said.

The witness gave the crew notes of the conversation including:

“How old is a girl?” — “The answer was 4” — “How old is she?” — ​​“She’s five, honey, she’s all you need” — “How much does it cost to (expletive) see her for one night?”

They told the crew that Cohen looked at several photos of girls as young as toddlers and 11-year-olds before taking off.

A crew member told police he saw two images on Cohen’s phone, including a dressed-up girl with pigtails, aged about 10, and a slightly older girl naked from the waist up, the prosecutor said.

Police asked Cohen to unlock his phone upon landing at Boston’s Logan Airport and found text conversations similar to those the witness had seen. They also found several photos of underage girls in see-through lingerie and a naked child.

Officers saw a video of a minor performing sexual acts on a man, to whom Cohen sent a response message saying, “I love her,” the prosecutor said.

Police also found several other videos and photos of men raping underage girls and a message from Cohen asking if he could have a sexual encounter with a 3-year-old child at his apartment for a fee, authorities said.

Cohen will return to court on August 15.

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