The teenager, who secretly recorded him having sex with 14-year-old girl and then sent the video to classmates, must register as a sex offender.
In December, 2018 18-year-old Jeremiah Horton was charged with distributing child pornography after the girl’s mother showed police the recording. The guy sent it to my classmates at North College Hill High School in Cincinnati, where he was subsequently excluded.
Jeremiahs Horton will have to register as a sex offender
Three students, who then spread it about porn, were prosecuted in juvenile court. Despite the fact that Horton sent the video when he was 18, he was tried as an adult.
Horton was sentenced by the judge to six months in the River City Correctional Center, a rehabilitation center for non-violent criminals. In addition, he will have to register as a sex offender in the authorities every six months for the next 25 years.
The lawyer of the guy Carl Lewis disagrees with the decision of judge Patrick Dinkelacker and calls the Horton act of the «youthful indiscretion».
«I very much doubt that you ever will again see this young man in the criminal justice system,» said Lewis Dinkelacker.
In April Horton pleaded guilty, and yesterday, may 23, during the trial, he apologized to the victim and her family in court.
«I’m not proud of what I did,» said Horton, adding that he also regrets the humiliation caused to his father, who raised him alone.
