A Lawyer From Media

July 26, 2024

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has accepted an attorney’s consent to disbarment

On April 18, 2024, a Criminal Information was filed in Commonwealth v. Patrick Francis Lomax, Docket No. CP-23-CR-0000395-2024, (C.C.P. Delaware Co.). Respondent pled guilty to Count 1, Photograph or Film Sex Act of a Person under the age of 18 years, in violation of 18 Pa.C.S.§ 6312(b)(2) ( F1), Count 3, Child Pornography, in violation of 18 Pa.C.S.§ 6312(d) ( F2) and Count 43, Invasion of Privacy, in violation of 18 Pa.C.S.§ 7507.1 ( M2) and was sentenced to an aggregate period of confinement of not less than 4 years and not more than 8 years and an aggregate term of probation of 2 years, sentence to run consecutive to Case No. CP-23-CR-0001172-2020.

Fox 29 (Philadelphia) reported

Prosecutors said Lomax filmed the pornography inside his home. One victim, identified in court documents as “Victim 1,” lived with Lomax, whose mother was Lomax’s partner.

An investigation into Lomax began on Jan. 22, when officials say Victim 1 brought video evidence to Media police.

Patrick Francis Lomax was charged with 48 counts of child pornography.

According to Stollsteimer, the victim discovered the evidence — three small video cameras and two video cards — inside both his and Lomax’s bedrooms. The victim discovered two of the cameras in November 2019: one behind a gaming console, the other behind a baseball glove.

The footage reportedly showed Lomax, who presented himself as a parental figure in Victim 1’s life, setting up the cameras to record the Victim 1’s sexual encounters. The footage also captured sexual encounters of other victims inside Victim 1’s bedroom.

In total, officials identified nine alleged victims from the video footage. Three were minors at the time of the incidents, which allegedly occurred over the course of several years.

Stollsteimer said Lomax, a criminal defense lawyer, “held himself out in court every day as someone who was standing up for justice when, in fact, he was committing crimes going back years, some of the most disgusting and disturbing crimes imaginable: videotaping children in sexual encounters.”

Additional reporting from The Patch

A former Media lawyer in prison after being convicted on child pornography crimes has been charged with even more crimes related to child pornography and surreptitiously recording others engaged in sex acts., according to court documents.

Patrick Lomax, 45, formerly of Media, was hit with 45 more charges, including 19 counts of child pornography, three counts of invasion of privacy, and related crimes. Lomax was sentenced to 5 to 10 years in July after being found guilty of child pornography, criminal use of a communication facility, invasion of privacy, and related crimes.

These new charges were filed after workers cleaning out Lomax’s former office found a shoebox in the ceiling that contained hard drives, CDs, and DVDs that featured pornography, according to the Delaware County Daily Times. The hard drives contained child pornography featuring the same victims that led to his July sentencing, as well as new victims, including minors, who authorities said were surreptitiously recorded having sex.

Lomax, who is incarcerated at the SCI Forest State Penitentiary, will appear for a preliminary hearing on the new charges on Nov. 3 in Delaware County

The former criminal defense attorney was hit with 10 years of consecutive sex offender probation and must register as a sexual offender for life due to his previous conviction.

Lomax was charged in 2020 after authorities said he set up two hidden cameras in the bedroom of his domestic partner’s son to record him and others having sex.

The victim came forward to police Jan. 22 and presented them with three cameras and two camera cards. The victim discovered two cameras in his bedroom, one hidden by a baseball mitt and one by a video came console, according to authorities.

One of the camera cards had footage of the victim and others having sex in the bedroom, the DA’s office said.

Authorities said the cameras were hidden there in November 2019.

Authorities said the victim’s uncle was in possession of one of the two camera cards in question, and the victim asked his uncle to review the card’s footage after discovering the cameras.

The uncle told the victim there was footage of him having sex and also that Lomax was seen on video setting up the camera, according to the DA’s office.

County law enforcement got a search warrant for Lomax’s home and found more footage of the victim and others, authorities said.

The DA’s office said there are nine victims in total, three of which are still under 18 years old.

The cameras found by the victim were placed in the room in November 2019.

(Mike Frisch)

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