A second officer has signed an agreement to resign, an official said.

A second officer has signed an agreement to resign, an official said.
By DENISE DICKand PETER H. MILLIKEN
VINDICATOR STAFF WRITERS
YOUNGSTOWN -- When he was a Boardman police officer, Stephen Kendall sent a 17-year-old girl explicit photographs, used a police computer to run her personal information and paid her 500 for sex, according to an internal report.
Kendall, 34, of Tippecanoe Road, pleaded guilty Thursday before Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to a bill of information charging him with gross sexual imposition involving a 17-year-old girl and intoxicants.
Kendall resigned from the police department Monday, one day before Mahoning County Prosecutor Paul Gains filed a bill of information.
Kendall was with the force for five years, and township payroll records show that with court time, overtime and holiday pay, he earned more than 75,000 last year.
Gains said he and the girl's family are recommending probation. Gains read a letter in court from the girl and her parents that said: "We are hoping he will be shown mercy since he is remorseful over the situation and would be able to walk away with probation."
The judge, however, told Kendall: "Your sentence is entirely up to me regardless of any recommendations that are made." The offense carries penalties of probation or six to 18 months in prison and up to a 5,000 fine. As a sexually oriented offender, Kendall will have to register his home address annually with the sheriff for 10 years.
Sentencing is set for 9 a.m. March 8 after a presentence investigation by the Ohio Adult Parole Authority.
Judge Krichbaum released Kendall on a personal recognizance bond under which he may not leave Ohio without the court's permission and allowed him to self-report to the sheriff's department for booking. Kendall's lawyer, J. Gerald Ingram, said after court that neither he nor his client would have any comment.
What's in memorandum
An interoffice memorandum from Capt. Jack Nichols, who conducted the investigation, to acting Chief Jerre Patterson referencing the investigation says the following:
Kendall initially met a 25-year-old township woman while on duty early Jan. 1.
He saw the woman walking to her car from a restaurant/bar on U.S. Route 224, cautioned her about driving drunk and offered her a ride home in his cruiser.
On the way to the woman's home, she consented to have sex, and Kendall drove behind a building in the industrial area of Simon Road and Midlothian Boulevard and the two had consensual intercourse in the front seat of the cruiser. He then took her home. A review of radio logs doesn't show that Kendall logged any citizen transport at that time.
Kendall and the woman kept in contact through the following week, and she visited his house. During that time, the woman received a call from her 17-year-old cousin, whom she described as a "wild child." The woman said she told Kendall the girl's age.
He said he wanted to meet the girl, who lives in Girard, and the woman gave him the girl's phone number, telling Kendall that any relationship between him and the girl would be up to them.
Kendall contacted the girl several times in early January and sent photographs to her cell phone including a close-up of a man and woman engaged in a sex act and of male genitalia. He also sent a photograph of himself in uniform in a police car.
Rest of memorandum
On Jan. 5, the two spoke on the phone with Kendall making arrangements to meet later that evening. He told her he was a township police officer, and she said she was 17.
During the conversations, the subject of having sex came up, and they negotiated a 500 fee Kendall would pay her for sex.
The pair along with the girl's 25-year-old cousin and Officer Ken Kasiewicz met at the same U.S. 224 business where Kendall had picked up the older woman.
Kasiewicz hasn't been charged. He has been on paid administrative leave and has entered an agreement with the township to resign, an official said Thursday night.
The four weren't able to get into the bar because the girl didn't have [the necessary] identification. They then drove to a grocery store in two cars.
Kasiewicz and the older woman went into the store, where he bought a bottle of Southern Comfort. The four then went to Kendall's house.
The girl said she had a drink made from the Southern Comfort, removed her clothes, put on a township police uniform shirt, and Kendall paid her 500 in 100 bills.
Shortly thereafter, she and Kendall went into one upstairs bedroom, and Kasiewicz and the other woman went into another room.
Kendall and the girl engaged in sex.
After sex, Kendall asked for 200 back, and she refused.
Kasiewicz and the 25-year-old were having some kind of conflict, and he left.
Kendall then told the girl to drive the 25-year-old home despite her telling him that she didn't have a license. The two women left.
The girl's parents told police she had spent 300, but they took the remaining 200. That money was turned over to police.
About LEADS use
An audit of the Law Enforcement Automated Data System used at the Boardman Police Department conducted as part of the investigation found that on Jan. 4 and Jan. 5, respectively, Kendall ran a LEADS search for information on the girl and her cousin.
It also found that Kasiewicz ran a LEADS inquiry on the two women that same week. Those inquiries weren't connected to any police work and would have had evidence of the girl's age.
The investigation started when a mental health professional who was counseling the girl reported to township Administrator Jason Loree on Jan. 10 that a 17-year-old girl told her she had been paid for sex by a Boardman police officer. The two officers were placed on paid leave Jan. 12.
"This was a bad thing," Nichols said Thursday after court. "I would like to apologize to the victim and to the community for the fact that this happened. This is not what the Boardman Police Department is about, and when these things do occur, we'll take all the necessary steps to correct it, to investigate it and to get to the bottom of it."