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Child Molester Admits His Guilt
Posted Tuesday, September 22, 2009 ; 04:28 PM | View Comments | Post Comment
Updated Tuesday, September 22, 2009; 09:12 PM


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Judge Sends Charles Roseberry To Prison

By D.K. Wright
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio -- It's a case that disturbed the entire community.

A husband, wife and adult daughter were all suspected of sexually molesting children and videotaping the process.

Now the husband has admitted his guilt, and the judge sentenced him on the spot.

47-year-old Charles Roseberry of the Bellaire area changed his plea to guilty.

Judge Jennifer Sargus wasted no time in sending him straight to prison.

But the mother of one of the victims had some scorching words for him before he left.

The sentencing hearing is often when the defense puts on witnesses to say good things about the defendant.

But there was not much of that in the Roseberry case.

Roseberry turned down the chance to explain his actions that led to the two rape convictions.

His defense attorney, Michelle Miller, did say it is to his credit that he pled guilty early in the process, to minimize further trauma to the victims.

But the mother of one of the victims said her daughter's trauma will never be minimized.

The woman said her daughter "just wanted to make sure that he (Roseberry) will stay in prison for the rest of his life, and when that ends, that he rots in Hell afterward."

Prosecutor Chris Berhalter asked for two consecutive life sentences, saying this case is about stolen innocence.

"The defendant robbed children of their innocence," said Berhalter. "And no child was safe from him. And due to two very brave young victims and an outstanding investigation by the Belmont County Sheriff's Department and Belmont County Childrens Services, we were given the opportunity here to not only hold him accountable for what he has done but to ensure there would never be another victim."

Judge Jennifer Sargus sentenced Roseberry to the maximum, ten years to life on each of the two counts, to be served consecutively.

He will have to serve 20 years before he is eligible for parole.

He will be 67 years old by then, and may never be released.

His daughter Kimberly Roseberry pled guilty yesterday to one count of attempted rape.

"Her sentencing has been continued until November, when she faces up to eight years in prison," said Berhalter.

Charles Roseberry's wife, Martha, allegedly videotaped the incidents.

She is charged with three counts of complicity to rape and three counts of pandering child obscenity.

Her trial is set for October.

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Keith Richard Radford Jr
10/2/09 at 3:45 PM
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Sex laws have been built on misconceptions and myth. The Supreme Court just ruled on sex offender laws where some factions of our government think by some inert reasoning that sex offender should be quarantined like some virus steaming from Draconian/Islamic radical view that sex offenders should be executed. I have seen for myself, video taken in another country where a sex offender was placed on a pole much like the Catholics use to use a pyramid shaped object and have them sit on it and spin, the pole travels through the body looking for the throat but if not found its ok because the sharpened end of the pole will come out somewhere to the delight of these very strange people who think such sad thoughts. The heritage of the act is in its self a brutal throwback to violent uneducated people who are so obsessed with any sex they can find & the only way to deal with this kind of "hierarchy" of historic hysteria. A word taken from hysterectomy, hysteria is tied to castration used to make animals less threatening which clearly explains the atmosphere we have made for our selves. Anyway we are supposed to be the most advanced nation and we still have a death penalty when the rest of the world except for some nations we are still warring with, selling weapons too, {think!} while other nations went home our weapons dealers and torture lovers delighting in support for the death of people they don’t know or want to simply because they don’t know how to get money with out taking it from someone by force. Is that supposed to include mutilations? In my humble opinion that alone are terrorist activities as much as severed hands, ears, heads, or making a case with nothing more than an obsession justified by lies. The truth about the sex offender registry will come out soon enough. When it does, People will see how the use of the registry was created, and by exactly who and why and the devastation it has created and the worthlessness of the use of it. It’s origin in the Jim Crow hanging laws that brought disgrace to our nation allowing thieves and murderous societal bigots who have trashed any shot at making good of a program in its design to make money destroying our nation and its people. We can not play god and we can not survive using this behavior model because we are compounding the problem since the numbers increasing to include the children they purport to protect. It's a ruse designed by people who are getting rich off the doctoring, castration/hysterectomy/health care/physic care of people through sex laws that have gone wild. What about the people who are being used by the Medicare programs that requires these mutilations for both men and woman after they take their means of support? Digging around in someone’s genitalia because you want what a weaker nation? Can't you see? You have created the model and it is worthless! Why don't we just indiscriminately kill people we don't know? That is statically the next sex offender, because over 90% of all new offences are committed by someone “not” on the sex offender registry and the numbers are increasing not decreasing so as a behavior model this is really worthless. So what is the use of such laws as the sex offender registry other than to terrorize people? With the murder of so many sex offenders and the continued disregard for life by the use of the registry it will be no time at all before the federal government will be held liable for their deaths through federal court. In a nation where a statement may have a double or triple meaning and our entire linage can be traced through mud, guts, and beer it’s nice once in a while to get the picture of what is meant instead of what some thinks someone may have implied being translated by greed. So it is from the trenches to the hill. Remember the game where someone says something in someone’s ear then passes it the same way to the next; the person advocating such destructive laws are the ones who need to be section 8 by simple brake down of the issue not the sex offenders. Best regards
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Judy Jones
9/23/09 at 11:08 AM
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"The defendant robbed children of their innocence," said Berhalter. "And no child was safe from him. And due to two very brave young victims and an outstanding investigation by the Belmont County Sheriff's Department and Belmont County Childrens Services, we were given the opportunity here to not only hold him accountable for what he has done but to ensure there would never be another victim."

RIGHT ON !!! Prosecutor Berhalter, and thank you Judge Sargus and the Belmont Co Sheriff.

This epidemic of adults sexually abusing innocent children has got to stop. The only way to do that is to expose the predators, get them in jail and keep them away from kids forever. The harm done to a child is so destructive and life long.

Also, a note to anyone who has already been sexually abused, there is help.

Snap Monthly Support Meeting

Survivors of clergy sex abuse, family members and supporters are welcome to attend this confidential self-help support meeting.

--Listen and/or be heard confidentially --Supportive, Accepting atmosphere --Local Community/National Network --By and for survivors and their important people

Location: Bellaire Public Library 330 32nd St. Bellaire, Ohio 43906

Date: Wednesday, Oct.14

Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Contact: Judy Block Jones, SNAP Ohio Vally Director, 636-433-2511 "Speak up and heal, expose predators, protect kids."

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