175 AT CCS FORUM
Community Told
Child-Porn Arrest
Just Tip Of Iceberg
Expert: Someone Doing It 10-15 Miles
Away, But Just Hasn’t Been Caught Yet
By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
COOPERSTOWN – Cyberspace is a scary place.
“I’m very concerned about what I heard tonight,” grandmother Diane Koffer said during the Q&A that ended two hours of presentations and, at the end, intent public participation this evening in Cooperstown Central School’s Sterling Auditorium.
The reason the 175 people were there was to try and learn whether anything untoward had occurred at the school revolving around Justin Hobbie, the 13-year phys-ed teacher and coach arrested last Friday. He was charged with receiving and distributing child pornography, some of it allegedly showing sexual acts between men and girls ranging from age 12 to as young as 3.
The question was not answered. When Beth Coombe, the Albany-based U.S. Attorney’s prosecutor, was asked directly, she said: She can neither say Cooperstown children were involved, or that they were not involved.
