Brookline man who says he's 'addicted' to child porn gets 10 years in prison

A man who lived with a toddler in Pittsburgh’s Brookline neighborhood has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after police found him in possession of nearly 1,000 images and videos depicting child pornography, federal prosecutors said Friday.

Jeffrey Goehring, 46, was arrested after Yahoo alerted authorities on July 3, 2016 that someone had uploaded 13 child porn images on a Flickr photo-sharing account traced to Goehring, U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady said.

Police searched Goehring’s home and found 111 videos and 862 images of child porn on his phone, computer and hard drives, Brady said.

Investigators also found several pornographic magazines mixed in dresser drawers with the clothes of a toddler, who was living with Goehring at the time, police wrote in the 2016 criminal complaint in support of his arrest. Police described the residence to be in “complete filth.”

At the time of his arrest, Goehring told police he’d never taken photos of the toddler but had been addicted to porn since the 1990s, the complaint said.

As part of his guilty plea, Goehring reiterated his longtime addiction to porn and said “that he has gradually switched to child pornography in the last 10 years,” prosecutors said.

Brady credited the collaborative work of local, state and national officials in bringing the case forward as part of Project Safe Childhood, a Department of Justice initiative formed in 2006 to find and charge people who sexually exploit children and rescue and assist victims.

U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon imposed Goehring’s 120-month sentence followed by 10 years of probation.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Shanicka L. Kennedy prosecuted the case with help from the FBI and Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office.