A former aide to Gov. Chris Christie who was indicted more than a year ago for engaging in sexual acts with a six-year-old will be back in court on August 5 after a judge rejected his bid to have the charges dismissed.
Kevin Tomafsky, 42, had 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.
Another man charged with Tomafsky was the victim’s father; both are Washington Township residents. The New Jersey Globe has withheld the other defendant’s name to protect the victim’s privacy.
A grand jury indicted Tomafsky in July 2023, and he was arrested on August 15. A trial date has not yet been set.
Christie hired Tomafsky to work in the governor’s office in June 2010 after he had spent eight years working on Republican campaigns in South Jersey, including as campaign manager for Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-Vineland). Tomafsky also held a state government job, which he resigned the day his arrest was first reported.
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.
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.