A state parole officer from Freeport admitted to federal agents that he had paid for and possessed child sexual abuse material after being stopped at Kennedy Airport on a return trip from Guyana, according to a new federal indictment.

Colin Kowlessar, 53, who is also a licensed psychotherapist, was intercepted by Customs and Border Protection agents on Feb. 27, and voluntarily handed over his cellphone and laptop with the passwords for both, according to an affidavit by Homeland Security Special Agent Iana Gutnick.

The cellphone had three videos of prepubescent girls involved in sexually explicit acts, the agent, who searched the device, said. Kowlessar was part of a Telegraph app group chat labeled "Caribbean exposed channel" through which he appears to have obtained the videos, accordi

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