Liverpool man expected to plead guilty in child sexual exploitation case

By John O'brien
Syracuse.com
May 2, 2016

http://www.syracuse.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/05/liverpool_man_expected_to_plead_guilty_in_child_sexual_exploitation_case.html

Jason Kopp in a 2007 photo. Photo by Chrissie Cowan

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – A Liverpool man is scheduled to plead guilty this morning to accusations that he and an elementary school aide sexually exploited three children to make child pornography.

Jason Kopp, 40, is on U.S. District Judge Glenn Suddaby's calendar for an 11 a.m. change of plea, an indication that he will plead guilty.

Kopp and Emily Oberst, 23, of Syracuse, were indicted last month on charges of sexually exploiting three children to make child pornography. The victims were a 16-month-old girl, a 4-year-old girl and a 2-year-old boy, according to a federal indictment.

One of the victims was a student at All Saints elementary school and day care center, where Oberst worked as an aide, according to sources. The FBI found naked photos of that child in a school bathroom at the school, the sources said.

All Saints fired Oberst after her arrest last month.

Oberst, of Syracuse, met Kopp online and the two were seeing each other romantically, sources said.

The investigation began March 4 when an undercover federal agent started texting on Kik with a user who turned out to be Kopp, court papers said.

Kik is an online messaging app that allows people to anonymously share photos,
messages and videos.

Kopp and an undercover federal agent had online conversations in which Kopp told him a female acquaintance had allowed him to have illicit contact with a baby girl, according to the FBI.

The FBI later identified the acquaintance as Oberst, court papers said.