Saturday, October 30, 1999
Meister sentenced to 9 years
He took nude photos of teen and sold some
BY EARNEST WINSTON
The Cincinnati Enquirer
William Meister Jr. was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison for luring a 15-year-old girl he met online into a sexual relationship and taking nude pictures of her.
A day after declaring Mr. Meister a sexual predator, Judge Ann Marie Tracey told him Friday it was impossible for her to tell if he is truly remorseful for starting a relationship with the Madeira teen. “You don't seem to understand your behavior,” she said.
But Mr. Meister pleaded with the judge to take him seriously before she sentenced him in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court.
“I would say I'm sorry for some of the choices I made,” the 38-year-old Madeira man said.
“She knows what I think of her and I'll leave it at that. ... I shouldn't have done what I did with her. I didn't think of how it would affect her in the future,” he said.
Mr. Meister refused to sign a form stipulating the requirements of a sexual predator, and said he will appeal his sentence.
Mr. Meister, a convicted con man and a former ticket scalper, was indicted by a grand jury in March on charges of corruption of a minor, illegal use of a minor in nudity oriented material and pandering sexually oriented materials involving a minor.
He originally pleaded not guilty, but withdrew the plea in September.
Hamilton County Assistant Prosecutor Heather Russell said Mr. Meister sold some of the up to 60 photos he took of the teen in various states of nudity.
Prosecutors said Mr. Meister even used a photo of her as a screen saver on his computer.
“Justice was done,” Ms. Russell said after the hearing.
Two other men — Frank Burton and Laszlo Bozso — have been sentenced for their role in the scheme. Mr. Burton was sentenced to two years of community control for a conviction on two charges of possessing nude photos of the girl, who was then 15.
Mr. Bozso was sentenced to one year in prison for interfering with a police investigation by destroying photos of a nude teen.
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