Appellate court upholds sex offense convictions against Gregory Dew

YOUNGSTOWN — The 7th District Court of Appeals has upheld Gregory Dew’s convictions for sex offenses against two of his teenage female gymnastics students long ago, but it vacated his more recent convictions for alleged sex offenses against two adult female chiropractic patients.

In making its unanimous, 39-page ruling today, the three-judge panel of the appeals court shaved 11 1⁄2 years off of Dew’s maximum consecutive 43-year prison term, reducing it to 31 1⁄2 years.

Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, who presided over Dew’s March 2008 jury trial and imposed the original sentence, will soon re-sentence the former Boardman chiropractor in accordance with the appeals court decision.

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