Convicted child-sex offender eligible for parole in January

WARREN — It’s possible that a videotape showing Martin Petersime engaging in lewd conduct after paying a 15-year-old boy to do something similar in the basement of the Warren Music Store in 1992 will be all the Ohio Parole Board needs to determine that Petersime needs to remain in prison.

But in case that’s not enough, Dennis Watkins, Trumbull County prosecutor, has submitted a letter and other materials to the agency. In the letter, Watkins pointed to a 1999 court-ordered evaluation that said Petersime “poses a high risk to the community and may be likely to engage in the future in a sexually oriented offense against a child.”

Petersime, 56, owner of the former store on High Street just east of Courthouse Square, was convicted of rape and other offenses in 1992 and has served 17 years of a possible 40-year prison sentence. Petersime is eligible for parole in January.

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