New information, that a doddering doctor was prescribing mind-altering drugs to a Charlottesville socialite who later pleaded guilty to child sex crimes, has prompted a reevaluation of the case on the eve of her sentencing in federal court.

Eleanor Hunton Hoppe, the 47-year-old scion of a prominent Richmond legal family and the ex-wife of a federal judge in Charlottesville, pleaded guilty last year to one count of distributing child pornography.

That was after she was arrested in 2023 by federal authorities outside a Warrenton motel, where they said she intended to defile an 8-year-old girl whose father she had met in a dark web chat room. As it turned out, there was no 8-year-old girl and the father was an undercover FBI agent. Shortly after her arrest, Hoppe was transferred to the Corr

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