In an Instagram post last night, Saul Len has changed his story from claiming that he was innocent of everything he was charged with, to claiming that he did upload all that CSAM to Google Drive – but only by accident – from a porn-filled Telegram group he voluntarily joined. According to his new post he developed an interest in porn from a young age that got out of hand and became an addiction. As time went on, Len wrote, he joined large porn oriented chats on WhatsApp and Telegram where porn was being shared constantly.
According to the complaint filed at the start of his criminal case, there were 15 specific videos found on his Google Drive depicting the rape of children between the ages of 3 and 13. An additional 126 files of a criminal nature were found in his drive by law enforcement, according to the complaint. He was charged with 15 counts of felony possession of CSAM.
He was given a sweetheart plea deal for all that CSAM. He pleaded guilty to 15 felony counts related to CSAM as well as one misdemeanor for Unlawful Modification of a Computer. Adjudication was withheld on the 15 felonies, and he was only convicted of the misdemeanor, and sentenced to 6 months in jail and 10 years of supervised release.
Not satisfied enough with that slap on the wrist, he requested that the entire record of his plea hearing and conditions be sealed by the judge. The prosecutor didn’t object because prosecutors rarely object to such requests. He likely made this request for the express purpose of setting up the lie he immediately told to his community after his plea hearing concluded.
In a WhatsApp message sent widely to members of the community, Len claimed that the State had investigated the initial CSAM charges and had found that they were without basis. He claimed that he was taking a plea to a single misdemeanor that carried a 6 month jail sentence to be rid of the case.
While Len is now admitting that what he said in that message wasn’t true, he never had any intention of coming clean. This statement from Len comes on the heels of him losing a legal battle against ZA’AKAH over the unsealing of his plea transcript.
Immediately following Len’s initial WhatsApp statement, ZA’AKAH challenged the sealing of his plea hearing in court. Len fought hard against the unsealing request, repeatedly claiming throughout the 6 months of initial litigation that ZA’AKAH intended to misrepresent the details of his plea if the record would be unsealed. The judge, however, repeatedly noted that the only party who had ever mischaracterized the plea and expressed an interest in continuing to mischaracterize the plea was Len himself.
He lost, and the records were ordered unsealed in June of 2025. That wasn’t enough for him. He immediately filed an appeal to the unsealing decision which delayed their release for another 10 months until his appeal was finally denied. It was only after ZA’AKAH exposed the truth of his plea – that he had pleaded guilty to 15 CSAM related felonies and a misdemeanor but received a withheld adjudication on the felonies – that Len saw fit to release this statement.
Which brings us back to this new statement. Len claims that the CSAM only wound up on his Google Drive because he accidentally had automatic uploads for WhatsApp and Telegram chats enabled on his phone, but that he never really knew that CSAM was shared in the group, never saw it himself, and didn’t deliberately save it.
Aside from Len’s repeated lies and deliberate attempts to hide the truth of his plea, this new claim is implausible on its face. By his own admission he joined these chats voluntarily. As noted above, the files on his Google Drive included 15 videos of the rape of children as young as 3, and an additional 126 files of a criminal nature. Len is asking us to believe that all of these files went through a porn group that he, a porn addict, deliberately joined, presumably for the purpose of watching and enjoying the content being shared, and that he never noticed all of the videos showing children as young as 3 being raped.
Whether he deliberately uploaded them to his Google Drive or not – which itself is a dubious claim – it strains credulity to claim that he somehow never saw what was being shared in these groups he deliberately joined as a porn addict. As if legal porn is a scarce commodity on the internet and that he never had a real interest in this very specific series of groups he joined.
Saul Len repeatedly lied to hide his crimes, attempted to abuse the legal system to keep his community in the dark about the risk he poses, and now, only when exposed, is spinning another implausible story that admits the barest minimum he can no longer deny while attempting to minimize the severity of what he did.
That such an unrepentant liar wants to start an organization to address men’s mental health is alarming. This isn’t teshuva. It isn’t coming clean. It’s yet another attempt at manipulation by a liar and criminal who got caught lying.
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