CHILLICOTHE (OH)
Chillicothe Gazette
CHILLICOTHE –A Washington Court House man who was found guilty of nine sex abuse charges from the 1990s involving children likely will appeal his conviction.
Just after noon Friday, the jury in the trial of Gary W. Freeland, 61, returned guilty verdicts on four counts of rape, two counts of felonious sexual penetration, and three counts of gross sexual imposition.
Judge Wm. Jhan Corzine ordered a victim-impact statement, but not a presentencing investigation.
“I don’t really see the point in a PSI when life in prison is a sentence for a number of these offenses,” Corzine said in court, adding he doesn’t want to waste resources.
Sentencing has been tentatively scheduled for 2 p.m. Oct. 5 in Ross County Common Pleas Court. Corzine noted sentencing will be complicated since the laws have changed and some of the charges no longer exist in the form they did when the crimes took place in 1994 and 1995.
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