Child Porn Case Guilty Plea Lands Montco Man With Probation

NORRISTOWN, PA — A Montgomery County man was ordered to serve out seven years' probation after he pleaded guilty to two felony child porn possession counts recently, according to media reports and court records.

John Florin Wochele, 24, of King of Prussia, admitted in court that he possessed and uploaded to the Internet a video depicting who was believed to be a young girl between the ages of 2 and 4 engaged in prohibited sexual activity.

Court records in the case show that Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas P. Rogers imposed sentence on Sept. 19, the same day that Wochele pleaded guilty to two felony charges of possession of child pornography.

The defendant had originally been charged with four felony child porn possession counts in addition to four felony counts of criminal use of a communications facility.

Records show that that court dropped the additional charges when Wochele agreed to plead guilty to the two felonies.

The Mercury newspaper reported that the investigation into Wochele began during the summer of 2020 when Upper Merion detectives got a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children involving the distribution of a video file that appeared to contain child pornography.

The video was reportedly connected to an Internet address belonging to Wochele.

Another tip, this one from the social media platform Instagram, was also subsequently sent to law enforcement regarding another incident of a video purporting to show children who were naked, the paper reported.

Court records in the case show that in addition to the seven years of probation, Rogers also ordered Wochele to comply with Megan's Law sexual offender registration, undergo sex offender supervision, agree to a psycho-sexual evaluation and comply with all recommendations, and have no contact with minor children.