Rochester man charged with 369 counts of child porn, son arrested on one count

WHEC-TVA five-month investigation by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office has led to the arrest of a father and his son on child porn charges.

Robert Hobbins is 53 and his son Steven Hobbins is 19. Both are in the Monroe County Jail and both have plead not guilty. The father is charged with 369 felony counts of child porn while Steven is charged with one count of possessing child porn. Police say they expect to file even *more* charges in this case.

“You don't know who's living next door to you, you really don't.” Johnette Woods-Davis WHEC-TVwas in shock when we told her that just up the block, Robert and Steven Hobbins were arrested for allegedly having thousands of child porn images in their home. She's even more concerned because she runs a day care at her house for her kids and several others. “We actually walk around the corner so that's very disturbing to hear that it's so close to home.”

Sonia Calloway's hair salon is even closer, right across the street, but Calloway had no idea about the charges until we told her. “You never know what's going on in people's houses. It may look good on the outside but on the inside it could be hell.” Neighbors say that Robert Hobbins has several other children living at the home.

The Monroe County Sheriff's Department had been investigating the Bobbins' for five months and more charges are expected to be filed. Robert and Steven Hobbins are in the county jail tonight – each on $5,000 bail.

Police found thousands of video tapes and DVD's at the house. They are still reviewing six computers, five digital cameras and seven disposable cameras. Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn said, “It looks like there's been approximately about six years of collection of these types of material and it's very unsettling to have an individual who has this large volume of this material.”

Johnette Woods-Davis says this arrest makes her job even tougher. “It makes it bad for home providers like myself, because people aren't that trusting with their kids anyway and then when they find that in a home it just makes it very distrustful for parents in general.”

Both Robert and Steven Hobbins are scheduled to be in court Monday morning at 11 a.m. Robert Hobbins did admit to police that he had been using the internet to download adult pornography for more than six years.

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Father


http://www.myspace.com/41994116


Son


http://www.myspace.com/stevehobbins66