Warren man sentenced to 3 years for child sex offense in Germany
By Ed Runyan
The defendant admitted the offense in an interview with military police.
CLEVELAND — A Warren man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for engaging in sexual contact with a boy while he served in the Army in Germany between 1987 and 1989.
Charles B. Dillie, 57, of Trumbull Avenue, received his sentence Monday in the federal courtroom of U.S. District Judge Christopher A. Boyko.
He also will be under federal supervision for one year after he is released from prison.
Dillie remains free on bond until he is notified to report to federal authorities.
The victim, now 29 and living in Colorado, told the Army’s military police in 2006 of the attacks after learning that Dillie was certified as a kindergarten teacher, according to an affidavit filed in the case.
The victim said he was worried Dillie might “do this again,” the affidavit said.
Carlotta Sheets with the Trumbull County Educational Service Center has said Dillie is not on file as a substitute teacher in Trumbull County and she had not heard of him.
According to the Ohio Department of Education, Dillie has no license to teach in Ohio.
The affidavit said Dillie and the boy’s father were stationed in Boeblingen, Germany, in 1987, when the boy was 8.
The victim said his parents would allow him to stay weekends with Dillie at his off-base apartment in Germany.
On one or two occasions, Dillie got the boy undressed and touched him sexually, according to documents filed in the case.
The victim turned over to authorities an e-mail he said Dillie sent him in 2005 apologizing.
The FBI also received an e-mail Dillie is alleged to have written to the victim’s mother in which he admitted conduct that was “inappropriate.” According to the affidavit, Dillie told the woman, “What matters is that I did something that was wrong, hurtful to [the victim], against the law and unforgivable.”
Dillie gave an interview to military police Feb. 8, 2006, at the Warren Police Department in which he gave a sworn statement admitting sexual contact with the boy.
Dillie’s attorney, Joseph Gardner of Canfield, filed documents in the case saying Dillie served 12 years in the Army and was decorated 15 times for his service.
Dillie was a combat soldier in the Iraqi war, during both Desert Shield and Desert Storm, the filing said.
He was honorably discharged from the military and given an 80 percent disability for depression and other conditions, Gardner said.
Dillie, who was born in Warren, cares for his elderly parents, who live in Newton Falls, and his sister, who is mildly retarded and lives in Warren, Gardner’s filing says.