Sex Offender Caught With Child Porn
By Brandi Makuski
A sex offender once characterized as having “potential to re-offend” faces new charges of possession of child pornography.
Brent J. Broeske, 25, was reported to Stevens Point police while living at Portage House — a halfway house for recently released offenders — last Nov., for making “suspicious internet searches on the communal computer.”
After investigating the computer search history during the three-hour block of time Broeske was signed in, detectives discovered searches for websites that produced child pornography, according to the criminal complaint. Broeske declined to answer questions when interviewed by police.
Broeske pleaded not guilty to 10 counts of possession of child pornography before Judge Thomas Eagon on Dec. 19. As a repeat offender, he faces up to 31 years in prison for each offense.
He is currently being held at Stanley Correctional Institution.
Broeske was charged in Dec. of 2010 with first-degree sexual assault of a child under the age of 13. He served four years in the Wisconsin State Prison System, and in June of 2015, Stevens Point police notified the community of his release from prison.
Broeske’s next court date was not immediately scheduled.