Child porn case against man, 33, will be rescheduled
A November trial for a child pornography case involving a Butler County man will be rescheduled for a later date following a Monday status conference.
The case against John Paul Doerr, 33, of Butler was scheduled to go to trial Nov. 13, but will be rescheduled. Doerr's attorney, Michael J. Pawk, said visiting Senior Judge Tim Creany scheduled another status conference for Nov. 26.
“We're not ready to go to trial, nor do we have a plea agreement,” Pawk said, adding that his client has been undergoing counseling and treatment.
Karissa Hand, deputy press secretary for the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office, said there was nothing else to report regarding the status conference.
Doerr faces 42 felonies related to child pornography after admitting he downloaded pornographic videos involving children onto his home computer last year, according to authorities. State police arrested him Jan. 16 following an undercover investigation into the sharing of child pornography on the internet, according to court documents.
Investigators first went online to identify those sharing and possessing child pornography using a BitTorrent file-sharing network. After that investigation, they executed a search warrant at the defendant's home on Oct. 16.
Police seized a computer tower belonging to Doerr during the search. They interviewed him that same day, and he “confessed to downloading multiple child pornography videos” onto the computer, according to a police affidavit.
