Former West Side youth soccer coach with child porn collection to undergo sex offender treatment

A former West Side youth soccer coach who also coached a girls’ team at a southeast Indiana school will undergo sex offender treatment for six months and then be monitored electronically for another six months, officials said, as part of his sentence for possessing child porn.

Hronek, 50, pleaded guilty last month in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court to four counts of pandering sexually oriented material involving children. Judge Jody Luebbers on Tuesday imposed a sentence, at least part of which had been agreed upon as part of the plea.

A search in 2019 of Brian Hronek’s Green Township house, computer and cellphone turned up images and videos of children as young as 7 months old being sexually assaulted, according to court documents. One of the videos was about 48 minutes in length.

The images included naked children who were tied to trees, the documents say. One showed a 2-year-old girl “tied down by rope on a bed…with a ball gag in her mouth.”

A search of Hronek’s cellphone revealed more than 100 web searches containing “known child pornography terms,” the documents say.

When Hronek was arrested in October 2019, he was a coach with the Cincinnati West Soccer Club. He was relieved of his duties the same month, officials said.

Hronek also was fired from his job as the girls’ soccer coach at Oldenburg Academy of the Immaculate Conception in southeast Indiana.

Hronek will undergo sex offender treatment at River City Correctional Center, a lockdown facility in Camp Washington.

He will have to register as a sex offender for the next 25 years.