Farmington man faces seven felony child sex contact charges
Court records say a child recorded evidence of abuse in a Farmington case now charging a man with seven felony child sex contact counts.
A Farmington man is facing seven felony child sex contact charges after investigators said a child recorded evidence of the abuse, putting the allegations into San Juan County’s public court record. The recording is central because it can preserve words, actions and timing in a way that can strengthen a criminal case beyond memory alone.
The complaint’s seven felony counts mark a serious prosecution and suggest multiple alleged acts or multiple legal theories are in play. The case is grounded in court filings rather than rumor, which gives the public a direct view of how investigators and prosecutors are building the case as it moves through the local justice system.
Public access to those records runs through New Mexico Courts’ re:Search®NM system. State courts say active SOPA accounts were migrated to re:Search®NM on April 7, 2023, and that under the Inspection of Public Records Act, every person has the right to inspect public records maintained by New Mexico Courts. That access is part of how child-abuse and sex-crime cases become visible in San Juan County before any final court outcome.
The Farmington filing also comes amid other recent local court activity in similar cases. One separate San Juan Pulse report identified Nicholas Finstad, 43, in a Farmington child sex contact case that began in January, while another said prosecutors dismissed a different Farmington minor-allegation case after filing a nolle prosequi motion in San Juan County Magistrate Court, where Chad Uselman was identified as the defendant in case number M-047-FR-2026-00202.
For families trying to report suspected abuse or find help, Childhaven’s Children’s Advocacy Center operates two nationally accredited centers, one in Farmington and another at a satellite site in Gallup. Childhaven lists a sexual assault hotline at 505-326-4700, a report abuse or neglect line at 1-855-333-7233, and a mental health hotline at 1-855-662-7474.
The New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs says suspected child abuse can also be reported any time by calling local law enforcement, #SAFE at 7233 from a cell phone, or 1-855-333-SAFE from a land line. In a county where serious abuse cases often surface first through magistrate-court filings, those reporting channels and records systems are the main tools families have to push a case from suspicion into accountability.
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