Wednesday, May 31, 2000
Boy, 11, sent to justice center
By Steve Kemme
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HAMILTON — An 11-year-old boy who was convicted of sexually attacking a 7-year-old girl lost his freedom Tuesday when a Butler County judge removed him from home incarceration and placed him in the juvenile justice center.
Juvenile Court Judge David Niehaus said he was troubled by probation department reports that the boy and his parents fail to accept his guilt.
“I'm very concerned about the attitude by you and your family that you didn't do anything wrong, even though it's obvious to me that you did,” he told the boy. “I'm concerned that it's going to happen again.”
The boy was convicted of gross sexual imposition on May 2. The judge gave him a six-month suspended sentence Tuesday and ordered him to be evaluated for a lock-up rehabilitation program at the county juvenile justice center.
At a July 10 hearing, Judge Niehaus will determine his final sentence. That same day, the boy also will be tried on two other gross sexual imposition charges, one involving a 6-year-old boy and another involving a 4-year-old girl.
According to testimony in his first trial, the boy lured the 7-year-old neighbor girl into a closet in his bedroom on March 24 and sexually assaulted her.
The boy's mother began sobbing after Tuesday's hearing when a security officer handcuffed him and led him out of the courtroom.
The boy's attorney, Paris Ellis, asked the judge to consider placing him in an outpatient therapy program instead of locking him up.
But Judge Niehaus also will consider placing him in a rehabilitation program at the county juvenile justice center that has a sex offender component.
The boy would be held at the center until he completed the program; the judge said that usually takes six months.
Another option is to send the boy to the state juvenile detention system. Completing a sex offender program at a state facility would take at least a year, the judge said. The boy could be held there until he's 21.
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