A Cedar Lake man is facing new child molesting charges less than two weeks after his sentencing in another case.
Kevin Richard Osika, 24, was charged Thursday with ten felonies, including Level 1 felony child molesting, child exploitation, and possession of child pornography.
He is in custody, held without bail.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) provided a cyber‑tip regarding suspicious online activity involving an Instagram user to the Indiana State Police’s Internet Crimes Against Children unit, ISP spokesman Sgt. Glen Fifield said in a release Thursday night.
In February 2025, Osika was taken into custody on an unrelated outstanding arrest warrant issued by the Hammond Police Department, Fifield said. As ISP and U.S. Secret Service investigators interviewed him, additional information triggered a search warrant for a residence in the 15000 block of Sheffield Avenue in Cedar Lake, and officers seized several electronic devices.
The Center for Missing and Exploited Children forwarded a tip on Dec. 9, 2024, that an Instagram user uploaded child porn, according to court records. Police tied it to Osika.
Under questioning in different police interviews, he admitted molesting a child. He said he used Discord and Snapchat for child porn. He also admitted to having various images of minors on his phone, records state.
At the time, investigators knew Osika had a pending Hammond child molesting case from November 2021. It wasn’t charged until February 2025. One agent from the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations said he was “very familiar” with Osika.
Court records show Judge Natalie Bokota sentenced him Feb. 12 in that case to 2.5 years in prison, 2.5 years in Lake County Community Corrections and three years probation in a plea deal for child molesting.
mcolias@post-trib.com; Michelle L. Quinn is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.
