Tuesday, March 09, 1999
Accused guard had record
Pleads not guilty to sex charges
BY SHEILA McLAUGHLIN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
LEBANON — With a prison record right behind him, Timothy Million Jr. managed to get hired working with the mentally retarded and standing guard over adult and juvenile inmates since 1993.
It's his latest job at Warren County Juvenile Detention that has forced the former corrections officer to defend himself against a dozen charges of sexual misconduct with teen-age female inmates.
A grand jury indicted Mr. Million on Monday on three felony counts each of sexual battery and corruption of a minor for allegedly having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old there in September and Octo ber.
Mr. Million also faces six misdemeanor counts of contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a child for allegedly making lewd comments to other girls and ordering a
16-year-old inmate to expose herself to him.
Those incidents allegedly occurred from August 1998 through February 1999, when Mr. Million was fired in the midst of a criminal investigation into sexual misconduct by three corrections officers.
Mr. Million, 30, of Middletown, surrendered to authorities Monday afternoon after learning of the indictment. An indictment is a charge levied by a grand jury after considering evidence presented by the prosecutor.
In a special arraignment hearing, Mr. Million stood relaxed alongside his lawyer, Frank Schiavone, and denied the allegations. He was released after posting $1,000 bail.
Judge Neal Bronson of Warren County Common Pleas Court had set bond at $10,000, allowing Mr. Million to avoid jail by paying 10 percent of it.
That came despite a prosecutor's plea for a higher bond because of Mr. Million's criminal history.
Warren County Prosecutor Tim Oliver had asked for $50,000 bond, noting that Mr. Million had spent time in prison twice since 1991 on aggravated burglary, forgery and attempted drug trafficking charges.
Despite his felony record, Mr. Million was hired at the Brookside Extended Care Cen ter for the mentally handicapped in Mason, the Community Corrections Center (CCC) for adult offenders near Lebanon and county juvenile detention.
CCC is for sentenced non-violent offenders from Warren, Butler and Clermont counties and is run by Talbert House under a contract with judges from each county.
“He has a history of working with particularly vulnerable subjects,” Mr. Oliver said. “We want to make sure he no longer has the ability to do these things again.”
Judge Bronson has ordered Mr. Million to have no contact with the females involved, other juveniles or anyone who is mentally or physically handicapped.
Officials from Talbert House, Brookside and juvenile court were not available Monday evening for comment about Mr. Million's employment.
However, Mr. Million's per sonnel file at CCC indicates he passed a criminal background check when he was hired in June.
Asked on the application whether he had been convicted of a felony, Mr. Million answered “not applicable.”
“I don't know that he lied,” Mr. Schiavone said. “He was saying it wasn't any of their business.”
Mr. Schiavone said he found it “pretty incredible” that the organizations who hired Mr. Million missed his criminal record.
Charles “Eddie” Heiber of Hamilton, a second corrections officer charged in the case, also had worked at CCC.
Mr. Heiber, 28, pleaded not guilty to public indecency and contributing charges in the case last week and was released on bail pending trial.
A third guard returned to his job because investigators lacked evidence against him.
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