KJ Biermann’s cellphone confiscated by parents over a year before sodomy and sexual battery arrest

KJ Biermann’s cellphone became the subject of a bitter divorce court dispute between his parents more than a year before prosecutors said investigators found disturbing videos on the teen’s device.

Page Six has not independently confirmed any connection between the two events or what, if anything, his parents Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann knew about the contents of the phone at the time.

On Feb. 18, 2025, Zolciak, 48, claimed in a motion for an emergency hearing in Fulton County that her estranged husband, 41, had taken possession of their children’s cellular devices and restricted her access to the kids after he made a “discovery” that remains redacted from the public documents.

The reality star also filed a heavily redacted motion for an in-camera inspection, which is a private review of evidence by a judge, that same day.

The filing itself does not identify what she felt needed to be reviewed. However, a later filing dated Feb. 21, 2025, in Cobb County, Georgia, where the couple’s divorce case was moved to, referenced the order regarding the inspection of their “eldest child’s cellular telephone, and the data thereon, which had been the subject of the in-camera inspection motion.”

The couple share 4 children: KJ, 15, Kane, 14, and twins Kash and Kaia, 12.

The Motion for Emergency Hearing filed by Zolciak claims that on Feb. 7, 2025, Kroy informed a court-appointed, neutral mental health professional about a discovery that remains redacted from the filing.

“In protecting the best interests of the children, Mother will not put into this public pleading what is alleged to be on REDACTED,” the motion states.

The filing goes on to claim that Kroy “began battening down the hatches,” writing that he “unilaterally directed Mother that she would no longer have parenting time with any of the children, took possession of the children’s phones, and prohibited the children from communicating with Mother.”

“Mother has had extremely limited parenting time, and Mother has grave concerns for the children’s safety and wellbeing, as well as the preservation of evidence which may be (or may have been) stored REDACTED,” the filing continues.

The two filed a joint statement of dismissal for the divorce proceedings in Fulton County, before refiling in Cobb County.

The former couple agreed that their attorneys would seek an order governing the handling and inspection of their “eldest child’s cellular telephone, and the data thereon,” which the document said had been the subject of the Feb. 18, 2025, in-camera inspection motion.

The following month, the court entered an order sealing documents related to the matter. No subsequent mention of the results of the inspection is publicly available.

Representatives and lawyers for KJ, Kim, and Kroy did not return request for comment on this story.

KJ was indicted earlier this month by a grand jury in Georgia on seven total charges — aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, three counts of aggravated sexual battery against a child under 16 and false imprisonment.

He has been held at Atlanta’s Metro Regional Youth Detention Center since his Aug. 17 arrest.

KJ appeared in his first court appearance on Friday, where the prosecution claimed videos were found on the teen’s phone allegedly showing him having sex with an underage family member.

The Georgia judge on the case granted KJ $200,000 bond. Once released, KJ must stay at his mom’s home, attend school virtually, abstain from social media and avoid cellphone use.

He is also barred from contact with the alleged victim, her family or associates, as well as anyone 16 or younger, and will be subject to electronic monitoring.

Sheffield said in a statement obtained by Page Six, “The matter arose from inappropriate, crude behavior involving two middle-schoolers. It did not result in an adjudication for statutory rape, sexual intercourse, or any comparable offense.”