The former maintenance worker of Ashland County was sentenced to prison for sexual crimes with minors

Ashland – a former maintenance worker by Ashland County, who previously guilty about sexual crimes with minors, will spend time in prison, a judge decided on Monday.

The 32 -year -old Jordan Stroub was sentenced to two prison for two victims when they were minors. The conditions are served for a total of 18 months.

With his lawyer Joe Kearns, a crumpled stroub appeared on video during the hearing, which was held over zoom.

The hearing, like others before the Ashland County Court of Common Pleas, should first be streamed live on the court's website. According to one of the victims and her father, the hearing was not streamed live.

The victim, who is now 16 years old, joined the hearing with her father and the lawyer of a victim. The lawyer read a letter that the victim wrote.

“You changed my life forever,” was the victim's letter. “I grew up and thought you were like a brother for me, but you grew up faster than I would have.”

The victim's father also announced.

“In this case, she may be all other strangers, but she was no stranger to the defendant,” he said.

The father noticed that Stroub had been part of the family for “over 10 years” and that he met his daughter for the first time when she was 5 years old.

“He was (as) near the family as she does without actually being a family,” he said. “He and his wife called us” Mama “and” Papa “, whenever they saw us or when they told us an SMS message.”

Two incidents

Stroub was charged by two separate incidents.

The recent incident included that Stroub sent inappropriate text messages to the victim who spoke on Monday. She was 15 years old at the time.

On Monday, her father said that his daughter hid the fact that Stroub wrote her inappropriately for her for almost a year. He said the behavior and behavior of his daughter had changed before finally reporting Stroub's actions towards the law enforcement authorities.

“She stopped going in Friends' houses, only if we wanted to stay when we stay. She didn't want to stay alone,” he said.

In the indictment against Stroub submitted in June it stood that he had followed her between June 2023 and March 15, 2024 by “with a sexual motivation”.

The deputy public prosecutor Matt Metcalf said Stroub sent text messages in which he sent “she without her clothes” and pictures of his waist down “with a very visible bay in his pants”.

Metcalf said Stroub also sent emoticons who clearly classified sexual activity.

“Fortunately, none of it happened,” said Metcalf.

The case finally prompted the investigators to discover another separate case, which, according to the authorities, took place between August 1, 2013 and December 2013. At that time was Stroub 20 and the victim was a 13-year-old girl.

The victim of the 12-year incidents did not speak during the hearing, but the authorities said that the victim was also a friend of the Stroub family.

Stroub's case should go to court in early March. He made a plea before this happened. It was about explaining the threat by condemning the indictment and a changed indictment.

The indictment – in connection with incidents that took place in 2013, changed from illegal sexual behavior with a minor to “attempted sexual behavior with a minor”.

Stroub stumbled through an apology during the hearing. When asked by Ashland County Common Pleas Court judge Dave Stimpert if he wanted to say something, he said: “No, sir.

“I mean, I do. I have regrets. I just want to sorry for one of the victims or something on. It is only – time is rough. I notice what I – what was done.”

Maximum punishment imposed

Each count carried optional prison periods between six and 18 months, but the judge of the Common Pleas Court, Dave Stimpert, said he had enforced the maximum punishment in both cases due to the seriousness of the crimes.

Stimpert said that the similarity between the two cases in which Stroub violated the trust of friends in the family informed his decision to send him to prison.

“(Your friendship with the family) she enables her to make these crimes easier,” said Stimpert and turned to Stroub during the conviction. The hearing was kept via zoom.

“It also shows a pattern of attraction to minors,” said the judge. “You cultivated them and tried to promote it in additional sexual behavior.”

Stroub is obliged to register as a sexual offender as Tier 1, the lowest of three classes in Ohio. It means that he has to register with the state annually for 15 years. Depending on the successful completion of probation or probation and treatment, there is potential for early termination.

Stroub started working for the district in 2017, while he was still a student at the Mapleton High School and the County-West Holmes career center in Mapleton High School and Ashland County-West Holmes.

In December 2020, the district commissioned him as a full-time maintenance worker, where it was regularly received and promoted wages.

The Commissioners of Ashland County once regarded him next as the district's maintenance manager according to Dennis Harris' retirement in July 2024.

However, the commissioners learned about allegations against Stroub before this could happen.

The victim's father called the Sheriff's office by Ashland County to report the inappropriate texts and images that his daughter had received. First of all, the caller is said to have said that Stroub sent “nude pictures” – an assertion that Stroub denied.

The allegations and pending criminal proceedings led to Stroub's discharge from the district employment on March 21, two days after the father's report on the Sheriff office.

Stroub's punishment also included the payment of around $ 1,400 in court costs and a mandatory sanction of five years after publication.

He received two days in prison and will continue to collect creditworthiness until he was transferred to prison, said Stimpert.