Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Staff report
YOUNGSTOWN
A convicted sex offender from Austintown is headed back to prison for the next 140 months after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography.
Jimmie D. Davis, 35, of Austintown, appeared Tuesday before U.S. District Judge James S. Gwin, for sentencing on the child-pornography charge. Davis had previously entered a guilty plea to the crime before Judge Gwin.
Gwin ordered Davis to be committed to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for a term of 140 months. He will receive credit for the time he has served in federal custody. He could have been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. Upon his release, Davis will be placed on probation for 25 years.
Davis pleaded guilty to knowingly possessing a cellular-phone memory card, a portable hard drive, three CDs and a desktop computer, all containing child pornography transmitted in interstate commerce.
Davis was put on five years’ parole April 28, 2010, after he was released from state prison where he had been sentenced to serve nine years on a 2001 rape and gross sexual- imposition conviction in Marion County.
Under terms of his parole, he was to have no contact with his daughter; he was not to possess any pornography or possess or use any electronic device with storage capacity; and he was not to frequent libraries or other places where children congregate.
Upon visiting Davis’ residence Dec. 27, 2010, his parole officer learned Davis had just been dropped off at the Austintown library.
When his parole officer saw him in the library, Davis tried to log off a library computer he was using, the parole officer reported.
Davis admitted to his parole officer he had made Internet contact with his daughter Dec. 21, 2010; the cellphone was seized upon his arrest; the portable hard drive was taken from him at the Mahoning County jail; and the CDs and computer containing child pornography were seized from his bedroom, according to an FBI affidavit.