By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer
Former Hightstown High School track coach and football star Todd J. Broxmeyer faces up to 30 years in prison after being convicted on five federal charges related to child pornography in a federal court in Binghamton, N.Y.
After deliberating for about five-and-a-half hours Sept. 18, a jury found Mr. Broxmeyer, 38, guilty of two counts of production of child pornography, one count of attempted production of child pornography, one count of possession of child pornography, and one count of transporting a minor across state lines to engage in sexual conduct, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Miroslav Lovric.
He is scheduled for sentencing Jan. 21, Mr. Lovric added.
”What he did in connection to coaching and access to children is horrific,” Mr. Lovric said this week. “He deserves to be punished to the full extent of the law.”
Mr. Broxmeyer was found to have more than 100 pictures of 20 to 30 teenage girls in different stages of undress on his cell phone, Broome County, N.Y., Detective Pat Isenburg previously said.
He also transported a teenage girl from Pennsylvania to New York in order to engage in sexual acts, Mr. Lovric said.
Mr. Broxmeyer was a boys and girls track coach at Hightstown High in the mid 1990s, and was later a volunteer assistant coach in the Newark Valley Central School District, Tioga County, N.Y. He also operated a field hockey league out of the Sportsplex in Union, Broome County, N.Y., according to Detective Isenburg.
In addition to the federal charges, he also faces rape and criminal sexual acts charges in New York for incidents taking place in Union between the summer of 2006 and December 2007 involving three young women, whose ages range from 15 to 19. Scheduling for that case is still pending, according to the Broome County district attorney’s office.
Before graduating from Hightstown High in 1988, Mr. Broxmeyer won the Colonial Valley Conference football rushing title. He also ran track.
He went on to play football for Kean College and later transferred to Mercer County Community College.
He also enjoyed a successful stint as a powerlifter. In 1989, Mr. Broxmeyer set state records in the squat and deadlift for the Teenage Division in the 191-pound weight class at the New Jersey Open Powerlifting Championship held at Princeton University.
He was a member of the U.S. National Field Hockey team and was head field hockey coach at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa, according to published reports. He then went on to run The Field Hockey Academy in Binghamton, N.Y., and was responsible for founding the Model Hockey Academy in Medford, according to a published report.
Mr. Broxmeyer is in federal custody, Mr. Lovric said.
His attorney, Patrick Kilker, could not be reached for comment.
