Sex Offender Visited Ocean Co. Chuck E Cheese, Now He's Fighting Parole Revocation: Report

TRENTON, NJ — A Tier 3 sex offender who has multiple convictions on sex charges involving children and has repeatedly fought Megan's Law provisions is fighting again to be released from prison, according to a report.

David F. Hohsfield, 69, has filed court documents seeking to be released from prison after he was sent back on a parole violation, NJ.com reported.

Hohsfield, whose address is in Asbury Park according to the New Jersey State Police Sex Offender Registry, was arrested in September 2022 for violating parole after he was seen on surveillance video walking into the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Brick, the report said. He did not make contact with any children but his parole was revoked, the report said.

He is now scheduled for release from South Woods State Prison in February 2026, according to the Department of Corrections.

Hohsfield's criminal history dates back to 1975 and includes more than 40 arrests, according to state court records.

The most recent arrest and charges were in 2018, after he followed women and their daughters around stores in Howell, making sexual comments to them. The daughters ranged from 8 years old to 12, police said. In one instance he followed a daughter around the children's swimsuit section, making sexually explicit comments, police said.

Hohsfield had been released from prison on parole less than three months earlier, court records showed at the time. He had been serving a sentence in an April 2017 case where he was convicted of endangering the welfare of a child, and a June 2015 sentence where after he was convicted of twice failing to register his residence under the provisions of Megan's Law, of trying to interfere with a monitoring device, and of stalking a former victim, according to Department of Corrections records.

The stalking incident was dated Aug. 1, 2012, just six weeks after Hohsfield was released from prison after serving three years of a 5-year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to a charge of child endangerment, those records showed.

Hohsfield has fought the Megan's Law provisions repeatedly since his 1997 guilty plea in a Bergen County case where he lured a girl to his car and then sexually assaulted her. According to a 2014 New Jersey State Appellate Court opinion on one of his appeals, Hohsfield violated the registration provision in 2001, 2002, 2005, and 2007.

That opinion also cited his March 2005 conviction. In that case an Asbury Park police officer saw Hohsfield stopped in his van talking to two 11-year-old girls, despite Hohsfield knowing he was prohibited from having contact with children he did not know. He negotiated a plea agreement with the prosecutor's office for a sentence of time served on the fourth-degree charge, the opinion said.

That appellate court opinion also lays out Hohsfield's more extensive past. It cites the presentence investigation report from the Asbury Park incident, which "indicated that defendant had a criminal history dating back to 1975 which consisted of 36 arrests, at least 12 municipal court convictions, and eight Superior Court convictions."

In each of the three convictions listed on the sex offender database registry, Hohsfield approached the victims in a public area and tried to lure them into his vehicle.

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The NJ.com report said Hohsfield claimed he had a reason for being at the Chuck E. Cheese in Brick but that reason was not explained in the court documents. Patch is seeking copies of the court documents.