SEX CRIMES 1997

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• Patrick Burrier, 47, Hambden Twp, sentenced to six years in prison and fined more than $30,000 for videotaping a 15-year-old runaway girl in a topless dance and for possessing files of child pornography on his laptop computer
  Plain Dealer 31 Dec, 1997, pg. 1 sec. A

• Teacher, 55, charged this week with repeatedly raping his daughter, was convicted of sex offenses involving students 20 years ago in Missouri; his wife, 33, was indicted on child endangerment charges for failing to intervene in the abuse
  Plain Dealer 27 Dec, 1997, pg. 1 sec. B

• Robert D Aldridge & M Jenny Wilcox win prison release after child accusers recant story
  Plain Dealer 21 Dec, 1997, pg. 7 sec. B

• Chardon: Convicted sex offender Patrick Burrier to have a hearing in Geauga County court to determine if he should be labeled a sexual predator, which would require him to register with authorities the rest of his life
  Plain Dealer 16 Dec, 1997, pg. 4 sec. B

• Lifeguard Gerald King Jr, 39, arrested for raping a child and spying on women and girls at the Cleveland Heights YMCA, pleads guilty to related sex charges, qualifying him for a mandatory life sentence-il
  Plain Dealer 16 Dec, 1997, pg. 1 sec. B

• Painesville: Bobby Lee Widner, 43, who fled the state ten years ago to avoid sexual molestation charges, is found guilty of lesser charge, fondling a 9-year-old girl; Widner faces a sentence of up to two years in prison for the 1987 charge
  Plain Dealer 13 Dec, 1997, pg. 3 sec. B

• Elyria: Charles Carroll, 44, must complete two prison terms before starting a 30- to 75-year sentence imposed after he was convicted of rape and sexual penetration in a 1987 attack in Oberlin
  Plain Dealer 10 Dec, 1997, pg. 3 sec. B

• Former Cleveland Catholic school teacher and principal Paul Deitrick, 50, pleads guilty to four counts of rape and to one count of disseminating pornography to a minor; Deitrick sentenced to eight years in prison with no chance for early parole; according to a plea bargain, Deitrick will carry the official label of "sexual predator" for the rest of his life
  Plain Dealer 10 Dec, 1997, pg. 1 sec. B

• Painesville: Fugitive Bobby Lee Widner goes on trial on charges of attempted rape and gross sexual imposition; Widner is accused of sexually molesting a 9-year-old girl, whom he knew in Willowick in April 1987
  Plain Dealer 10 Dec, 1997, pg. 3 sec. B

• Cloverleaf High School math teacher Kenneth E Beeler Jr, 46, resigns amid allegations he molested a young man
  Plain Dealer 09 Dec, 1997, pg. 3 sec. B

• Delaware: Mary Franks, 44, Sunbury, pleads guilty to the attempted rape and kidnapping of her son-in-law, Rodney Hosler, a convicted child molester she reportedly was afraid was molesting the same child again
  Plain Dealer 09 Dec, 1997, pg. 5 sec. B

• Painesville Twp boy, 14, released to county human services officials after serving 51 days in juvenile detention for his role in a plot to enable him to live with his father, David Wayne, in Colorado; Wayne faces charges of kidnapping, abduction, assault and illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material
  Plain Dealer 06 Dec, 1997, pg. 3 sec. B

• Batavia: 36-year-old Amelia man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his 11-year-old daughter; the girl's mother will go on trial Dec 17 on charges she prostituted the girl and a 6-year-old daughter by another marriage
  Plain Dealer 04 Dec, 1997, pg. 5 sec. B

• Medina: Cloverleaf High School math teacher Kenneth E Beeler Jr, 46, accused of molesting a former student, may be dismissed from his job after the school board meets; the abuse occurred as early as 1984 when the victim, now 24, was in junior high; Beeler, a teacher for 14 years, pleaded not guilty to six counts of sexual imposition
  Plain Dealer 04 Dec, 1997, pg. 3 sec. B

• Columbus: Sen Alan J Zaleski's bill would allow courts to commit violent sex offenders to mental hospitals involuntarily once their prison terms are up
  Plain Dealer 04 Dec, 1997, pg. 5 sec. B

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