MAHONING COUNTY Judge sentences man in child-porn case

The Mahoning and Trumbull county prison terms will be back-to-back.
By BOB JACKSON
VINDICATOR COURTHOUSE REPORTER
YOUNGSTOWN -- Jon Scott Bloyer said he's ashamed and embarrassed about getting caught with sexual pictures of children, and promised he'll never do it again.
But Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court said Bloyer's track record indicates that if given a chance, he's likely to offend again. That's why he stacked a one-year prison sentence back-to-back with one Bloyer already is serving from Trumbull County for similar charges.
Bloyer, 44, of Sigle Lane, Boardman, was sentenced Thursday in common pleas court for two counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor, to which he pleaded guilty last month.
Defense attorney George Kalafut pleaded with Judge Evans to make his sentence concurrent with one Bloyer is serving from Trumbull County.
"He's mighty remorseful," Kalafut said. "He's ashamed of what happened."
When the judge ordered the two prison terms to be consecutive, Bloyer's parents gasped aloud in the back of the courtroom and Kalafut pleaded for reconsideration.
"Overruled," the judge said.
What prompted charges
A Mahoning County grand jury indicted Bloyer last year on 10 counts of pandering obscenity after authorities found sexually oriented pictures of children in his truck, some of young girls in sexual bondage situations.
In exchange for his plea of guilty to two counts, Assistant Prosecutor Dawn Krueger dismissed the remaining eight counts.
Bloyer is a former volunteer announcer for the Boardman Little Spartans football program.
Trumbull authorities said he used a public computer at the Girard Free Library to view sexually oriented images involving children. Authorities said Bloyer failed to log out of his e-mail account, and the next patron found images of children in sexual positions.
Kalafut said Bloyer also faces charges in Springboro, Ohio, where he is accused of sending letters to a 14-year-old girl who lives there.
Judge Evans said those charges were filed after Bloyer was charged here, which led him to believe Bloyer would be likely to commit similar offenses once he gets out of prison.
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