The 28-year-old was sentenced to six years on Thursday for taking advantage of the besotted teenage Sunderland fan.
Johnson started his career at Middlesbrough and won the league with Manchester City, with whom he won all 12 of his England caps, before joining Sunderland.
England manager Hodgson was in charge for Johnson’s final two international appearances and decried the winger.
“I don’t think it’s fair to put on us that we should suddenly now start with a damning judgement on the fact that three or four years ago he was playing well for Manchester City and got into an England squad,” Hodgson said.
“He was chosen purely and simply on his footballing ability at that time and we took advantage of it. Since that time, of course, circumstances have contrived to put him in the position where he is today.
“I have no wish to sort of comment on the case itself. I think enough has been said, enough has been done. My views on the subject are no different to anybody else’s, any reasonable human being.
“I condemn what he did and unfortunately he has to pay the price for it, but I don’t think it should be linked in particular to England, the fact he once played for England or that we once were actually quite a lot closer to him when he was a player under my leadership and a colleague of Gary’s [Gary Cahill, who was sat alongside Hodgson].”
Asked whether Johnson should keep his England caps, Hodgson said: “I have no idea about that. I didn’t know you could take England caps away.
“You’d have to go to the FA with that one if that is something which is done on a regular basis, if people who sin in some way have to give caps back. I’ve never heard of that.”
On Wednesday at Bradford Crown Court, Orlando Pownall, defending, told the judge that Johnson had “been stripped of his England caps”.
Despite Mr Pownall’s assertion, reports indicate that the player has not been stripped of the 12 he won. No other England internationals with criminal convictions have been stripped of their caps.
On Wednesday, the FA released a short film exploring the policies and practices the governing body, and the wider football industry, has in place with regards to safeguarding and child protection issues.