Ex-Christie aide charged with child sex crimes

A former aide to Gov. Chris Christie has been arrested on charges he paid to engage in a sexual act with a six-year-old girl.

Kevin Tomafsky, 41, has been under investigation since  October 2022 after Snapchat reported the uploading of an incident of alleged child sexual abuse to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which was then sent to the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s office.

Three sources say that another man charged with Tomafsky was the victim’s father; both are Washington Township residents.  The New Jersey Globe is withholding the other defendant’s name to protect the victim’s privacy.

A grand jury indicted Tomafsky in July, and he was arrested on August 15.  Tomafsky is currently being held at the Salem County Correctional Facility in Mannington.

Christie hired Tomafsky to work in the governor’s office in June 2010 after spending eight years working on Republican campaigns in South Jersey, including as campaign manager for Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-Vineland).    Tomafsky held a state government job, which he resigned earlier today.

Tomafsky is charged with engaging in sexual conduct with a child, conspiracy to endanger the welfare of a child, permitting a child to engage in pornography, and the possession of child pornography.

According to court records obtained by the New Jersey Globe, Tomafsky was identified as the original recipient of a photo of a young female engaged in oral sex with an adult after the Gloucester prosecutor’s office reviewed records supplied by Snapchat as the result of a warrant.

Several days later, a Superior Court judge authorized a search warrant of the home Tomafsky shares with his mother.  The search was conducted on December 14, 2022, and an examination of devices belonging to him revealed his possession of less than 1,000 items of child sexual abuse materials.

The other individual was charged with six criminal accounts, including knowingly committing the act of sexual penetration on the six-year-old and photographic a child engaging in a sex act.

Tomafsky worked in Christie’s scheduling office, managing surrogates representing the governor at events.  According to his resume, he also maintained “surrogate satisfaction charts” and tracked events that Christie attended in each county and in other states.

“I am 100 percent on Team Christie, and I want to make sure that I do all that I can to serve him in the best way possible,” Tomafsky said in an email to a top Christie aide in 2013.

In 2012, at the recommendation of Christie’s office, Tomafsky was hired as a government and community relations representative at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where he worked for eleven months.

Tomafsky was the field director for Republican legislative candidates in the 1st district in 2013.  He served as legislative director for Assemblyman Sam Fiocchi (R-Vineland) from 2014 to 2016.   He began working on political campaigns while attending Rowan University and served as Washington Township GOP vice chairman and president of the Washington Township Republican Club.

Editor’s note: This reporter hired Tomafsky to work at the PANYNJ in 2012 at the direction of the Christie administration.