A Rosendale man already serving 12 years for a Buchanan County Child Molestation conviction appeared in Andrew County court this week for circuit court arraignment on nine more counts.
Brian Jay Hoffman is accused of a wide array of deviate sexual behavior with six boys and girls, including his children, step children or their friends, all under the age of 14.
The incidents happened between April of 2009 and March, 2013 according to court documents. The Andrew County case was filed in August of 2014
In a court hearing Monday, Mr Hoffman entered a plea of not guilty to nine counts of 1st Degree Child Molestation. Some of the charges were filed along with alternative charges including statutory sodomy and forcible sodomy.
Judge Weldon Judah scheduled a motion hearing in May, at which time he is expected grant the defendant’s motion for a change of venue. Andrew County Prosecutor Steve Stevenson says that in small counties such as his, state law guarantees the right to a change of venue in criminal cases, provided the application is filed in a timely manner.
Court documents indicate there were nude photographs taken of the children wearing no clothing, and that there were “Craigslist conversations” found in the household with an unknown third party that were sexual in nature and discussed young children.
Mr Hoffman is in custody of the Department of Corrections at the Farmington Correctional Center, serving a 12-year prison sentence for Child Molestation out of Buchanan County. The defendant pleaded guilty to that charge in May of 2013 and was sentenced in July of that year.