An American child rapist jailed for an act of gross indecency in Tayside in 2010 is being held on $5,000 bail amid new accusations.
Brian Christian Hohman, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 54, was jailed for a year and put on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years after trying to lure a vulnerable 15-year-old Fife boy to commit a sex act at a Dundee swimming pool.
Hohman – who is still registered as a sex offender in three US states and the UK following his Dundee conviction- is currently awaiting trial at Central Berkshire District Court after being charged with assaulting an 18-year-old man in early October.
He pled not guilty to one count of indecent assault and battery and the case is scheduled for a final pre-trial conference in May with the possibility of trial in May or July.
In his most recent case, according to court documents, he allegedly tried to ply the man with marijuana and offered to pay cash for the man’s used underwear and pictures of his genitals.
Judge Paul Smyth set bail at $5,000, with the conditions that he have no contact with the alleged victim and remain at least 100 yards away.
The man reported the alleged assault to Pittsfield police and identified Hohman as the perpetrator via a photo line-up.
From 1989 to 1992, Hohman assaulted eight males, ages 12 to 17.
He pleaded guilty in Berkshire Superior Court on March 29, 1993, to four counts of rape; nine counts of rape and abuse of a child without force; nine counts of indecent assault and battery on a child age 14 or over; six counts of indecent assault and battery on a person age 14 or over; and four counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Hohman spent six years behind bars in Massachusetts.
In June 2002, he pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender in New York, and in June 2007, in Massachusetts, he was charged with being a fugitive from justice.
In November 2007, the equivalent of a fine from the prosecuting authority was imposed on him for sexual assault and he was fined $1,000.
He was not placed on the international alert list by the US authorities before he left the USA for an extended holiday in Europe and South Africa in November 2009.
A police report showed that he travelled to London, Fife, Johannesburg and Tenerife and then went to a holiday cottage in Fife.
The Dundee case caused outrage, prompting questions over how he was able to travel freely without being monitored or notification of his movements relayed to authorities in the countries he visited.
Three youngsters from a children’s unit in Kirkcaldy had been taken on an outing to Olympia in Dundee on February 10 2010.
Hohman spoke to the boys in the changing rooms.
Hohman told one boy there was a pornographic image in the toilets and made an indecent suggestion to him. The boy became alarmed and told his friend.
After being released from Perth Prison, Hohman returned to the US.
He was fined $250 in January 2015 for failing to register as a sex offender.
In June 2015, he was fined after being found guilty at Southern Berkshire District Court of sexual conduct for a fee and accosting or annoying another person after repeatedly propositioning a man, who also declined his advances.
