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by Chris Palmer Published Dec. 5, 2025, 3:59 p.m. ET

A Philadelphia journalist was sentenced Friday to 20 years in federal prison for possessing thousands of images and videos of child pornography.

Michael Hochman, whose work was published over the years by outlets including Visit Philadelphia, the sports website Crossing Broad , and The Inquirer — where he once contributed a freelance column — came to the attention of investigators in 2022 after they learned that he exchanged explicit messages with a teenage girl. Authorities later found that he had downloaded more than 2,000 photos and videos of children being sexually abused onto his computers and other devices, prosecut

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