Hotchkiss Pleads Guilty to Producing Child Pornography

(St. Louis, MO) A man from Irondale, Andrew Hotchkiss, is pleading guilty in federal court to charges of producing child pornography. A press release from the United States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri, shows the plea was accepted from Hotchkiss Tuesday. Between the dates of March 1, and May 13, 2019 in St. Francois County, Hotchkiss sexually abused the victim, who was six years of age at the time. Hotchkiss used his cellular phone to video record and produce images of his sexual abuse of the victim. He distributed the images and videos of the abuse via the internet to one or more others, including a resident of the State of Oregon. On May 13, 2019, law enforcement officers with the Oregon State Police located the images and videos on a cellular phone belonging to the Oregon resident who was in police custody after attempting to meet an 11 year old for sexual contact. The case was investigated by the St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department and the United States Secret Service.