Sex Offender Facing 10 Years In Jail After Visit To Danvers Mall

DANVERS, MA — Salem District Court Judge Thomas Drechsler ordered a convicted sex offender to undergo an evaluation before he decides whether to impose a mandatory, 10-year sentence for violating probation.

Daniel Goichman, 57, has been in custody since he was arrested last year. He is accused of violating conditions of his parole for failing to keep his GPS monitoring bracelet charged and for visiting the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers for six hours in Dec. 2018 and Jan. 2019.

During a hearing Thursday, probation officials said they found photos of underage girls and nude selfies in his phone when he was arrested. According to the Salem News, which first reported this story, they also found evidence he had been using the Kik social networking app to chat with someone who appeared to be a teenager.

Goichman was sent to the Massachusetts Treatment Center in Bridgewater for a 40-day evaluation following the hearing. In 2014, Goichman was convicted of six counts of dissemination of child pornography and three counts of purchase of child pornography. In 2002, he was convicted of rape and abuse of a child.

At the time of his arrest, Goichman had recently been released after serving part a 7 1/2-year prison sentence from the 2014 conviction. He also spent a year in jail for the 2002 conviction.