Yesterday’s arraignment (Tuesday, Oct. 7) in criminal superior court for Eric Von Kohorn, the Wilton Preschool aide arrested on child pornography charges, resulted in the case being “continued” to Dec. 2, according to the superior court clerk.
“We will reconvene in December for a pretrial conference with the state attorney’s office and the judge. It will be about scheduling,” wrote Jason Sheffield, Von Kohorn’s attorney, in an email to GOOD Morning Wilton.
This is the second pretrial continuance, following the first hearing and arraignment on Sept. 3.
There has been some development back home in Wilton, however, as the Wilton Police Department has opened two additional cases investigating Von Kohorn and specific interactions he had with children at the preschool. The new cases now bring the total number of open WPD investigations to four.
“We’ve had conversations now with four different families, about various concerns they’ve had with children they’ve had at Miller-Driscoll. Some families wanted to talk with us, just more of as an FYI–‘Our child exhibited this type of behavior and we don’t really know what to make of it. It may be nothing but we thought you should be aware of it.’ It’s been kind of more like that,” explained Lt. Donald Wakeman.
He added that some of the families involved have consulted with outside psychologists as well.
Wilton Police have also reached out to Von Kohorn’s attorney to request an interview with his client.
“The attorney told us, ‘no.’ The attorney told us if need be he would come in, the attorney. We could ask him questions, and he would bring them back to Von Kohorn. We need to speak directly to Von Kohorn, so we took that as a no, [Von Kohorn] is not coming in to speak with us. And it was left like that.” Wakeman said.
According to the lieutenant, there is no way to compel Von Kohorn to come in for an interview. “That’s his right.”
The police say it’s unlikely they’ll be able to pursue any line of questions with Von Kohorn.
“If we were to somehow gather some other evidence, we would reach out to his attorney again, and extend the offer once again, to have him come in and talk about it, but the attorney could very well say, ‘No,’ again. At this point the attorney doesn’t want to present him to us,” Wakeman said.