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Sex offender gets judicial release
YOUNGSTOWN
A 25-year-old North Jackson man sentenced last summer to four years in prison for unlawful sexual activity with a minor has been released from prison after serving 81/2 months.
Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court released Justin A. Cadle of Rosemont Road on Tuesday.
The judge ordered that Cadle be placed under 90 days of house arrest, with work-release privileges, to be monitored by the Community Corrections Association, and that he be evaluated and treated as a sex offender by the Forensic Psychiatric Center of Northeast Ohio.
Judge Krichbaum also ordered Cadle to have no contact with the victim, not to possess firearms and not to leave Ohio without the judge’s permission.
“I really do feel a lot of remorse. I ruined somebody’s life,” Cadle told the judge.
Cadle’s lawyer, J. Gerald Ingram of Boardman, filed the motion for judicial release on his behalf in March.
When Cadle pleaded guilty last 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.
The victim was 12 and 14 years old when Cadle committed the crimes against her 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 re-offending; and would likely be rehired in his previous position as a diesel technician upon his release.
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.