NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, Pa. – A Northampton County man who was found in possession of more than 100 photos and videos of child pornography will spend years behind bars.<\/p>\n
Matthew John Kocher, 32, previously pleaded guilty to several felony counts of sexual abuse of children and was sentenced this week to serve 12 to 24 years in prison, according to a news release from Attorney General Dave Sunday\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
Following his release, Kocher will serve three years of probation and be under sex offender supervision conditions, the news release says.<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s office received a cyber tip, and agents traced file-sharing to Kocher. Last year, the agents seized devices from Kocher\u2019s Nazareth home and his workplace in Bethlehem, Sunday\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur Child Predator Section continues to rid communities of offenders who abuse and exploit children,\u201d Sunday said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope a sentence of years and years behind bars serves as a deterrent to anyone who thinks viewing these kinds of photographs and videos is a minor crime,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, Pa. – A Northampton County man who was found in possession of more than 100 photos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,31,434],"class_list":["post-308327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}