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Judge gets emotional during sentencing of Ohio man who sexually abused 2 girls

WSYX ABC 63:32

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Mr. McKean Victor Dever pleaded guilty to a sexually oriented child victim offense. As such, he will be a Tier Three registrant for your lifetime, with in-person verification every 90 days. Failure to register, failure to verify residents of the specified times, or failure to provide notice of a change in resident address or other required information as described will result in criminal prosecution.

This Court is so sick and tired of seeing adults ruin and abuse children. These are literally just one step from being babies. They come to a daycare. Those parents struggle so that when they release their children to someone during the day, they have some semblance that that child is going to be protected and safe. Not let alone two of their children being raped by your own admission, sir, for sexual gratification. You've violated a four-year-old and a six-year-old.

I do not know at this time what the total ramifications will be for those two young children, but there isn't anybody who doesn't understand now the developmental phases of children take place from zero to six years old. You can't even know what damages you've done for sexual gratification. This to me is so mind-boggling that you used and abused two little children like they're their their their inconsequential beings. Those are human persons with human dignity. The mere fact that they're small little people that can't fight off adults, that's why an adult left them with adults.

I'm gonna tell you something, Mr. McFadden. There's no free rapes in my courtroom. On count one, I'm sending you to prison for 11 years. On count four, I'm sending you to prison for 11 years. They will be consecutive to each other for a total of 22 years. You have 32 days jail credit at this time. The Court finds it necessary to protect the public from future crimes, to punish the offender, and define that consecutive sentences are not disproportionate to the seriousness of the offender's conduct and to the danger the offender poses to the public.

Folks, if you see it, you smell it, you know it's happening, you report it. These are little children that are the future. I hate to sound so cliché, but the children are our future, and if we're destroying them, we have no future. And this ends in this courtroom. That'll be all.

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