A change of venue has been granted for a Rosendale man charged with nine counts of child molestation in Andrew County.
As we previously reported, 41-year-old 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.
Wednesday, Hoffman was granted a change of venue from Andrew to Buchanan County. A trail setting is scheduled for June 1 in Judge Weldon Judah’s court.
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.