Warminster Man Possessed Thousands Of Child Porn Images: Feds

WARMINSTER TOWNSHIP, PA — A 52-year-old township man has been sentenced on federal charges of downloading and collecting thousands of images and videos of child sexual abuse material, authorities said.

Michael Hochman, 52, of Warminster, was sentenced Friday to 240 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney David Metcalf announced. Hochman was charged by information with receipt of child pornography and pleaded guilty in June.

In 2002, Hochman was convicted in the state of Kansas of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, for which he was sentenced to 55 months’ imprisonment, authorities said.

In that case, he communicated online with a 13-year-old girl, manipulated her into producing sexually explicit images, and traveled to Kansas and engaged in sex with the child on multiple occasions, authorities said.

Federal authorities said the case was launched as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice.

Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims.

For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit projectsafechildhood.gov.