Monday, June 4, 2012
Joel W. Hochmuth, 52, of Waukesha, is required to register as a sex offender.
The former communications director for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod will spend one year in the work-release jail after he was sentenced Monday on one count of possessing child pornography. Joel W. Hochmuth, 52, of Waukesha, was sentenced Monday to 10 years of probation the year of jail time is a condition of his probation. Other conditions of probation include sex offender treatment and registering on the state’s sex offender database, according to online court records. Two additional felony charges of possessing child pornography were dismissed in exchange for his guilty plea. Hochmuth was charged in November after detectives from the Waukesha Police Department met with a special agent from the FBI, who told detectives that …
Friday, March 9, 2012
Waukesha man will be sentenced June 4 on felony charge after authorities found images at his home and on thumb drives at his work office in Wauwatosa.
The former communications director for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, Joel W. Hochmuth, who was fired from his position upon his arrest on child pornography charges, pleaded guilty Friday morning to one felony count of possessing child pornography. As a result of the 52-year-old Waukesha man’s plea, two additional counts of possessing child pornography were dismissed. The Waukesha County district attorney’s office will recommend an unspecified amount of prison time when Hochmuth is sentenced at 2 p.m. June 4. “We have gone over it ad nauseam,” said Paul Bucher, who is Hochmuth’s defense attorney. “It is my decision,” Hochmuth told Judge Kathryn Foster shortly before pleading guilty to the charge. The case was set for a jury …
Friday, December 16, 2011
Joel M. Hochmuth, 52, is out of the Waukesha County Jail on $20,000 bail and is ordered to not use the Internet.
Editor's Note: This article has been updated to reflect that Joel Hochmuth was fired from his duties at the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod following his arrest. The former communications director for Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, who was fired from his position after his arrest, pleaded not guilty to three counts of child pornography possession Friday morning in Waukesha County Circuit Court. Joel W. Hochmuth, 52, of Waukesha, waived his preliminary hearing during his court hearing. Another hearing has been set on the case for Feb. 3. Hochmuth currently is out of jail on $20,000 bail and is ordered to not access the Internet. Hochmuth faces up to 75 years in prison if convicted of the three felony charges. Detectives from the…
Johnny Paycheck
10:48 pm on Monday, June 4, 2012
What a nice man. more ›