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Sex offender seeks judicial release
YOUNGSTOWN
A 25-year-old North Jackson man, who was sentenced last summer to four years in prison for unlawful sexual activity with a minor, is asking the sentencing judge to release him after he has served about seven months in state prison.
Justin A. Cadle, of Rosemont Road, an inmate at the Noble Correctional Institution, is asking Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to release him early.
Cadle’s lawyer, J. Gerald Ingram of Boardman, filed the motion for judicial release on his behalf Tuesday.
Judge Krichbaum has not ruled on the motion.
When Cadle pleaded guilty Aug. 31 to unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and two counts of gross sexual imposition, Ingram and Jennifer McLaughlin, an assistant county prosecutor, jointly recommended the four-year prison sentence, which Judge Krichbaum imposed immediately.
In the plea agreement, however, McLaughlin also recommended that, after six months in prison, Cadle should be released into a residential treatment program.
McLaughlin could not be reached to comment on Tuesday’s motion.
The victim was 12 and 14 years old when Cadle committed the crimes in 2010 and 2012.
Cadle initially had been indicted on two rape counts that each could have carried a life prison term upon conviction because of the age of the victim, but those counts were dropped in the plea deal.
The motion for judicial release said Cadle is genuinely remorseful; has been rehabilitated; poses little, if any, risk of reoffending; and is likely to be rehired in his previous position as a diesel technician if he’s released.
After prison, Cadle will be on probation for five years. He must register as a sex offender with the sheriff’s office every 180 days for 25 years.
Cadle also won’t be allowed to live within 1,000 feet of any school, preschool or child day-care center.