Trumbull prosecutor again asks for Martin Petersime to remain in prison

Staff report

WARREN

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins is again opposing parole for Martin Petersime, the former owner of the Warren Music Center on High Street, who was convicted in 1992 of 20 felony sex offenses involving six children.

Petersime, 60, was convicted of two counts of rape involving boys 11 and 12 years old and other offenses and has served nearly 22 years in prison. His sentence could last as long as 40 years.

Petersime gave drugs to children to facilitate sex with them, had group sex with them, produced pornographic films with them and himself and many other types of sexual deviancy, Watkins has said.

Petersime was denied parole in 2009, but he is eligible again in November.

Watkins wrote to the parole board again recently, saying Petersime “surely will not change his stripes once out on the streets, whether it is in Piqua, Ohio, Cleveland or Warren.”

Petersime was convicted in Piqua in 1975 of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and in 1976 in Cleveland of two counts of exhibiting materials harmful to a juvenile.