MONROE — Mateo Hernandez Patishtan, one of the three men from Brodhead involved in the pornography charges from Dec. 2020, has been sentenced to one year in local prison July 28. 

Hernandez Patishtan was charged after a three-and-a-half-month investigation into online activities regarding various videos and images. The Wisconsin Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force originally identified and tipped the Brodhead Police in conjunction with Orfordville police and the Green County Sheriff’s Office of “possible child pornography being shared or received by devices at [a duplex in the 600 block of 1st Center Avenue of Brodhead] via various social media platforms.” These included two Facebook accounts under the names “Carlos Ruiz” and “Carlos Lopez”.

The departments served a search warrant at the premises resulting in the arrests of Mateo Hernandez Patishtan, 31, Pascual Hernandez Patishtan, 33, and Rafael Hernandez Patishtan, 26, all of Brodhead. Mateo Hernandez Patishtan was identified as the owner of the two accounts through their profile pictures. 

July 28, Mateo Hernandez Patishtan entered a guilty plea for a felony of one count of possession of child porn with two counts of child exploitation read in. Mateo Hernandez Paatishtan is to serve a one year punitive sentence, as well as be required to registered as a sex offender. Green County District Attorney Craig Nolen said Mateo Hernandez Patishtan will likely be removed from the country by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saving the county taxpayers expense of a trial. 

Pascual Hernandez Patishtan and Rafael Hernandez Patishtan will continue their cases in Judge Faun Marie Phillipson’s courtroom after the Honorable Judge James Beer’s retirement September 9, beginning with Pascual Hernandez Patishtan’s motion to suppress confession based on a confession in which language and translation may have played a factor.