WAUKESHA (WI)
Fox 6
March 9, 2012, by A.J. Bayatpour
WAUKESHA — Joel Hochmuth, a former Lutheran church official, accused of having child pornography, pleads guilty one of three counts of possession of child pornography. In exchange for the guilty plea, the state dropped two of the three counts.
Prosecutors say Hochmuth had pictures and videos of young boys in sex acts. He was fired from his post at the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, where he served as Director of Communications.
Hochmuth was charged with three counts of possessing child pornography, after a sting operation by the FBI’s Cyber Crimes Task Force found child porn images and videos on Hochmuth’s personal and work computers, as well as thumb drives.
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