2 Mahoning County men get prison terms for child porn

YOUNGSTOWN

Two Mahoning County men were sent to prison Wednesday in underage-pornography cases.

A 57-year-old city man was sentenced to nine years after he pleaded guilty to one count of pandering obscenity involving a minor and two counts of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor.

Robert C. Dash Jr. drew the sentence from Judge Shirley J. Christian of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

“This defendant is not accidentally stumbling upon these items,” said Jennifer McLaughlin, an assistant county prosecutor.

“He is going through a very purposeful search,” she said, submitting 15 pages of child-porn searches from Dash’s computer to the judge.

“I’m sorry that this has all been brought up before the court,” Dash told the judge, adding that he accidentally downloaded, and immediately deleted, one child-pornography image.

More than 12 people had access to his wireless Internet router, he told the judge.

In another matter, Douglas M. Miner, 43, of West Middletown Road, Beloit, drew a two-year prison term from Judge John M. Durkin in a pornography case involving a minor.

Miner had pleaded guilty to one count of attempted pandering obscenity involving a minor, three counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material and one count of tampering with evidence dating back to February 2014.

Miner made a nude video of a 16-year-old girl on his cellphone, while he was charging it in a restroom, where she showered, then made still pictures from it, then tried to remotely delete his cellphone contents electronically, while it was in the custody of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, McLaughlin told the judge.

Read more about the cases in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.