Attorney: Suspend workers overseeing toddler believed raped at CSB

WARREN

The attorney for an alleged rape victim’s grandmother says he believes employees with the Trumbull County Children Services Board should be placed on leave while a criminal investigation is undertaken.

Atty. David Engler, who represents Loretta Banks of Warren, grandmother of a 1-year-old girl purportedly raped by her biological parents during a visit at the CSB offices on Reeves Road in July, suggested the leave in a letter he made public

Monday.

The letter, written to Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins, says Engler believes CSB

employees under investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation should not have access to records

related to the case.

“Will they alter records? Will they destroy

records?” Engler asks in the letter. Engler doesn’t name specific employees.

Nick Kerosky, executive director of CSB, said his

office is cooperating with investigations. If investigators suggested to him that anyone be placed on

administrative leave, he would do so immediately, Kerosky said.

He added, “If I thought there was a need to do it, I would do it.”

Meanwhile, The Vindicator has obtained a copy of CSB’s internal policy regarding visitation of children in the agency’s custody.

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