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"This isn't the Pat I know," said Peg Ackerman, a lobbyist for the County Sheriffs of Colorado who often worked with him on legislation. She said he was concerned about drug use in schools and was a chief of security at a school district.
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CENTENNIAL, Colo.— A former Colorado lawman with a record so distinguished he was once honored as the nation's sheriff of the year now finds himself in a jail that was named for him, accused of offering methamphetamine in exchange for sex from a male acquaintance.
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GJ - SP Mark Schroeder said, "This is not the Joel Hochmuth I know." But the cover-up is one we all know. Joel was not a WELS teacher or pastor, but that is an irrelevant factoid tossed out by Schroeder. Plenty of WELS pastors, teachers, and a DP have molested children and teens. Hochmuth represented WELS internationally and even traveled to make WELS videos in exotic locations like Russia.
Joel is "repentant" but his criminal defense lawyer, one of the
Former Waukesha County District Attorney Paul Bucher is Hochmuth's defense attorney:
"He's indicated in the complaint that he's had some adult pornography issues, and we want to deal with those issues for an addiction issue, and I want to get him into counseling," Bucher said.
Read more: http://www.wisn.com/news/29790392/detail.html#ixzz1fOCycDJz
SNAP Response - same link - for ELCA Pastor Bruce Foster -
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests released a statement on this case.
"If the charges against Hochmuth turn out to be credible, it is important to know what steps the Synod president is going to implement to protect children. (The synod president) should immediately notify the congregations of the Synod of the charges that have been made against Hochmuth," SNAP said.
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Smokescreen - another source:
Bucher said he was attempting to get Hochmuth into counseling because Hochmuth indicated in the complaint that he had some adult pornography addiction issues.
Bucher said Hochmuth was not a threat to the community.
"It's just a pornography issue we need to deal with. He's not a threat to children. He's not a threat to any individual. But we need to deal with these serious allegations," Bucher said.
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http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-20111116-hochmuth-child-porn,0,188658.story
Memo to Bucher:
The criminal complaint states that during his arrest, Hochmuth stated he has been struggling with an addiction to viewing pornographic photos and videos of young boys in sexually explicit poses, but denies ever creating his own pornography. The complaint also says Hochmuth's wife caught him looking at the images once, and says they went to counseling as a result.
Officials removed a desktop computer and a laptop computer from Hockmuth's home, and the criminal complaint states Hochmuth said what would be found on his home computer was nothing compared to what they would find in his office. A search warrant was executed at Hochmuth's office [WELS Headquarters, 2929 Mayfair Road] , and FBI agents found a thumb drive, containing 310 child porn images, and 38 videos. Agents say there were several hundred images found on Hochmuth's home computer.
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Here is another case of pretending not to notice in WELS.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Aug. 21, 2009
Contact: Joel Hochmuth
Director of Communications
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
joel.hochmuth@wels.net
WELS president expresses regret at ELCA decision on gay clergy
Milwaukee, Wis.—Rev. Mark Schroeder, president of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), is expressing regret at the vote of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) convention regarding homosexual clergy. Friday, delegates approved a resolution committing the church to find a way for “people in such publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships” to serve as professional leaders of the church.