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Prosecutor recommends 10-years for North Lima man who admits having child porn
YOUNGSTOWN
A prosecutor is recommending 10 years in prison for a North Lima man who pleaded guilty to 15 counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor and one count of attempted pandering obscenity involving a minor.
Mark Lucicosky, 43, of Woodworth Road, entered his plea Friday before Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, who will sentence him at a later date. He remains free on $75,000 bond.
Lucicosky initially had been indicted by a county grand jury May 14, 2015, on 17 counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor, with the alleged offenses having occurred in November 2014, and Jan. 15, 2015.
In the plea agreement, the prosecution dropped one count and reduced another to the attempted offense.
On Jan. 15, 2015, agents from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, together with Beaver Township police and county sheriff’s office deputies, executed a search warrant at Lucicosky’s residence.
During the search, a BCI agent found images on a compact disc of adolescent males engaged in sex acts.
“This defendant had a large amount of child pornography,” said Jennifer McLaughlin, an assistant county prosecutor, explaining why she’s seeking such a long prison term for him.
Agents found 696 video images of child pornography and an additional 20,420 graphic images of child porn, she said.
In a Jan. 15, 2015, interview with BCI agents, Lucicosky admitted downloading and sharing child pornography using peer-to-peer, file-sharing software, but said he never had sexual contact with a child.
He agreed to take a BCI-administered polygraph exam that day, and the examiner concluded Lucicosky had told BCI agents the truth in the earlier interview.
“There is a real child somewhere at the beginning of all of this – a real child that is being victimized again and again and again every time somebody downloads these videos, “ McLaughlin said.
Lucicosky’s lawyer, Rhys Brendan Cartwright-Jones, told the judge he’d ask for a lesser sentence than the prosecutor requested, but he wasn’t specific in court and declined to elaborate after court.
If Lucicosky gets maximum, consecutive sentences on all counts to which he pleaded guilty, he’d get 251/2 years in prison.