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Judge to decide in man’s rape trial
YOUNGSTOWN
A Mahoning County judge will decide later this week whether a Campbell man already serving time for molesting two children under age 7 is guilty of a rape charge.
In this case, 35-year-old Milous Brown is charged with the rape of an 8-year-old girl in summer 2006.
He is on trial to the court before Visiting Judge Thomas Pokorny in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.
Natasha Frenchko, an assistant county prosecutor, told the court Brown attended a swimming party in Campbell where the girl was present in 2006. Brown purportedly held the girl and used his hands to assault her at the party.
“The evidence has shown that the defendant is a liar, a con artist and a child molester, and when he saw the opportunity, he took it to molest an 8-year-old girl,” Frenchko said.
Atty. Gary VanBrocklin, representing Brown, called Brown’s former girlfriend and mother of his child to the stand to testify on his behalf.
She was present at the pool party where the purported assault took place.
The former girlfriend testified that Brown was never alone in the pool with the girl and Brown was playing with a number of kids at the party, picking them up and throwing them into the pool.
She said she never lost sight of Brown at the party and he was not alone with the girl.
On cross-examination, Frenchko pointed out that if Brown was looking to molest the juvenile, he would not have done so where his girlfriend could see.
Frenchko played a list of phone calls between Brown and the former girlfriend recorded while Brown was in the county jail.
She said Brown, in all the calls, never once professed his innocence, but did say he could not remember what had taken place and asked the former girlfriend to contact witnesses and soften their hearts to his plight.
VanBrocklin said the recorded calls only show a man who is concerned about criminal charges pending against him.
He said Brown never asked anyone to take the stand and lie on his behalf.
Judge Pokorny said he will render a verdict in the case Thursday.
Brown already is serving a 10-year sentence after being convicted in 2011 of the molestation of two girls who were 4 and 5 years old in 2009.
In that case, Judge John Durkin of common pleas court sentenced Brown to maximum sentences of five years on each of two gross sexual imposition charges to be served consecutively.
Brown also is required to register as a sex offender for 25 years.