Fired LSU Foundation staff member arrested on child porn charges; rebooked on more charges days later
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A staff member of the LSU Foundation was arrested on several charges, including child pornography, impersonation, and animal abuse on Tuesday, Oct. 4, and then authorities booked him on more charges on Friday, Oct. 7.
A spokesman with the university confirmed Chase Kojis, the LSU Foundation facilities coordinator, was fired from his position following his off-campus arrest by deputies with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Jail records show Kojis was rebooked on Friday, Oct. 7, on charges of online impersonation (4 counts), unauthorized use of a wireless router system; pornography involving juveniles, and nonconsensual disclosure of a private image (4 counts). The jail reported he was released Friday night after posting a $100,030 bond.
A second arrest warrant states Kojis is accused of setting up social media accounts impersonating other people, including a teen girl, and using the victims’ photos on those social media platforms, altering some of them in sexually explicit ways. It added he also engaged in conversations with adult men, “giving explicit details of sexual acts that occurred with the victims and their children.”
The warrant went on to state it was discovered that Kojis accessed the wireless router at his former place of employment to access the social media accounts and upload child porn. An LSU spokesman said Kojis accessed the wireless network on LSU’s campus to upload the photos to social media.
Arrest reports show an initial search warrant at his home led to the discovery of child porn images and photos of sexual abuse of an animal. Authorities said the pictures were found in a hidden photo album on Kojis’ cell phone.
Investigators said in the first arrest warrant that he pretended to be someone else while he posted private pictures of young girls online. He’s also accused of using the profile to have conversations with others who wanted to have sex with young children.
According to LSU, Kojis’s employment was “immediately terminated” due to the “egregiously unacceptable nature of the charges.
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