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Man gets 10 years for molesting girls
YOUNGSTOWN
Milous Brown wanted a new trial and a temporary reprieve from jail, but what he received was a 10-year prison sentence and a requirement to register as a sex offender for 25 years.
Brown, 34, of 13th Street, Campbell, appeared Monday before Judge John M. Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for sentencing on two felony counts of gross sexual imposition. A jury convicted Brown of the charges earlier this year.
Judge Durkin sentenced Brown to maximum sentences of five years on each of the charges to be served consecutively. Brown also is required to register as a sex offender for 25 years.
He will get credit for the 166 days he has spent in the county jail.
Natasha Frenchko, an assistant county prosecutor, said Brown sexually molested two girls early in 2009, when the children were 4 and 5 years old, respectively. The victims told their older sister that Brown would touch them under their clothes, in their groins and on their buttocks and breasts in the bedroom the girls shared in their mother’s Campbell residence, the prosecutor said.
The father of the victims told the court Brown has destroyed the lives of his children and others. He asked the court to impose the maximum 10-year prison sentence in the case.
“There is a special place in hell for a man like this. My daughter had nightmares and still does to this day,” he said. “Although she is doing better with counseling, this will never go away.”
Brown did not accept the guilty finding against him, telling his attorney, Doug Taylor, that he still “absolutely and categorically denies” the allegations.
Brown, against Taylor’s advice, read a lengthy statement, saying the court provided him no justice in the case, then saying his previous attorney sabotaged the case and the victims’ father set him up.
“Blatant evidence proving my innocence was not heard in this court,” he said. “I am not the monster I have been painted out to be. I am not a monster.”
Brown ultimately asked the court that his guilty verdict be set aside and a mistrial declared because of ineffective counsel on the part of his previous attorney. He also asked to be released from jail pending a new trial date, or at least over a weekend to attend his uncle’s funeral.
The mother of the victims also read a lengthy prepared letter to the court in support of Brown. She said Brown has always been a wonderful father to the child she had with him and to her other children who are not Brown’s.
The judge said Brown is blaming everyone from family and personal acquaintances to his attorney and the court for his conviction, but he reminded Brown that one victim sat in the witness chair and detailed what he did to her with enough clarity that 12 people unanimously agreed on his guilt.
Frenchko said Brown also has a pending rape charge that will be tried at a later date.