Scott Tamagny is the police chief of Leonia, a small borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, and the defendant in a federal lawsuit filed by his adult daughter accusing him of years of ritualistic sexual abuse. He is also a party to a contentious divorce in which a state-court gag order against his ex-wife was left in place after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal in June 2025.
The Federal Abuse Lawsuit
In January 2025, Courtney Tamagny, then 20, sued her father in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The case, Tamagny v. Division of Child Protection and Permanency et al., No. 25-00732, names Scott Tamagny, a neighbor named Kevin Slevin, and other defendants, and demands a jury trial.1PACER Monitor. Tamagny v. Division of Child Protection and Permanency, No. 25-00732
The complaint alleges that Courtney Tamagny was subjected to “satanic ritual abuse” and torture from 2009, when she was four, through 2020, when she was fifteen. She accuses her father and Slevin of ritualized sexual abuse and rape, said to have occurred in the family home and in nearby wooded areas during ceremonies involving masked participants. The lawsuit also alleges child trafficking, the drugging of victims, and threats used to keep them silent. According to reporting, she began addressing the events in 2022 after trauma-related memories were triggered during medical treatment, and a therapist later filed an official abuse complaint on her behalf.2NDTV. US Top Cop’s Daughter Accuses Him of Torture
How Scott Tamagny and the Co-Defendant Have Responded
Scott Tamagny and Kevin Slevin have denied the allegations. Both have said the claims were previously investigated “up to the federal level.” Slevin has filed a slander countersuit against Courtney Tamagny.2NDTV. US Top Cop’s Daughter Accuses Him of Torture
The allegations are unproven. No criminal charges against Scott Tamagny or Slevin have been reported in connection with the claims, and the defendants assert that prior investigations produced no findings against them.
The Divorce Gag Order
Scott and Jeanne Tamagny are also involved in divorce proceedings in Bergen County Superior Court, Family Division, docketed as Scott Tamagny v. Jeanne Tamagny, No. FM-02-220-22. On June 28, 2024, Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca issued an order that Jeanne Tamagny’s attorneys described as sweeping. It barred her from discussing the divorce litigation with “any third parties,” including her two adult daughters and her minor child, identified in filings by the initials MT and described as 17½ years old at the time.3U.S. Supreme Court. Tamagny v. Tamagny, Petition for Writ of Certiorari
Judge Gallina-Mecca described the order as a temporary measure under the court’s parens patriae authority to protect the children from conversations she called “potentially very, very seriously detrimental” to their mental health. The order was later amended to let Jeanne Tamagny speak with her attorney and therapist, but the restriction on discussing the case with her children or anyone else remained. The judge acknowledged entering such orders “on a regular basis” in high-conflict divorces.3U.S. Supreme Court. Tamagny v. Tamagny, Petition for Writ of Certiorari
The Supreme Court Appeal
Jeanne Tamagny lost her challenges in New Jersey’s appellate courts and then petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari on April 11, 2025, in a case docketed as No. 24-1083. She argued that the order was an overbroad prior restraint on speech in violation of the First Amendment, pointing to less restrictive alternatives such as a narrower ban on disparaging Scott Tamagny. She also argued that cutting her off from discussing her life and the family’s situation with her own children violated her fundamental right to parent under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.3U.S. Supreme Court. Tamagny v. Tamagny, Petition for Writ of Certiorari
On June 23, 2025, the Supreme Court denied certiorari, leaving the gag order in place.4U.S. Supreme Court. Order List, June 23, 2025
Where Things Stand
As of mid-2025, Courtney Tamagny’s federal lawsuit is pending, and Kevin Slevin’s slander countersuit against her is also moving forward. The divorce gag order remains in effect. Scott Tamagny continues to serve as Leonia’s police chief, and no criminal charges have been publicly reported against him or any other defendant in connection with the abuse allegations.