A 34-year-old Wisconsin woman was arrested in her home state Tuesday on charges of aggravated child abuse and child sexual battery, following a federal investigation in Marathon that began in December 2023.
Kia Lynn Cadogan faces multiple charges for child abuse that the FBI said took place in Marathon in 2023 while Cadogan lived on a boat at Boot Key Harbor City Marina.
On Wednesday, she was in a Wisconsin jail being held without bond, La Crosse County jail records show. She faces extradition back to Monroe County, said Sheriff’s Office spokesman Adam Linhardt in a statement.
That means she will join her husband, Eric Cadogan, 39, in facing criminal charges related to minors. His case is at U.S. District Court in Key West.
But in Monroe County court records there is a 2024 case lodged against Kia Lynn Cadogan for a felony sex offense. The affidavit in the case is sealed.
MCSO did not provide details of the allegations Kia Cadogan faces. The Cadogans have five children, ages 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12.
“Those children are in Florida living in foster homes, and proceedings are underway to terminate parental rights,” according to a federal magistrate judge’s order that Eric Cadogan remain detained until his trial on charges of distribution of child pornography.
The detention order, signed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Lurana Snow on Jan. 17, notes that Cadogan, “admits to having had sex with minors and is facing domestic abuse charges. Accordingly, [he] constitutes a danger to other persons and the community.”
If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison followed by supervised release for life.
Eric Cadogan’s Facebook page posts include photos of him with several children apparently in his care while living in Marathon in 2023.
“Did u get the kiddos back?” someone commented on a photo of Kia Cadogan and a young girl on a Facebook page filled with selfies of Kia Cadogan. The account’s name is “Phoenix Rizin,” and says she is a singer-songwriter.
There is no reply to the comment.
Detectives with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes division began investigating the case in December 2023 after an undercover federal agent said he found a user on the Kik message app offering child pornography for sale and shared explicit images with the agent upon request.
In court records, the FBI said they later identified the Kik user as Eric Cadogan, who was living in Boot Key Harbor at the time when the illegal images were shared with the undercover agent.
“I have 100 of videos (and) pictures,” Cadogan typed in online messages with the undercover agent, and he shared several videos of undressed female children in explicit poses and being used in sexual acts, the FBI said.
Cadogan may have done more than possession and distribution of child pornography, FBI agents said.
Agents reported finding evidence that they say identifies Cadogan as the man in a video raping a girl and that he may have forced a woman into a sexual act with an 8-year-old boy.
Both Eric and Kia Cadogan were arrested in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.
Eric Cadogan was in federal custody in a Miami detention center earlier this month, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
In an interview with an FBI agent on Dec. 7, a woman identified in the criminal complaint only as “K.C.” said that in 2020, Eric Cadogan forced her to have intercourse with an 8-year-old boy on Cadogan’s boat at the Marathon marina.
When the FBI filed a criminal complaint in December 2023 accusing him of child pornography possession and distribution, Cadogan was in La Crosse, Wisconsin with a pending domestic battery case against him.
