1/8/13: MVRCFL Examines Digital Evidence in Child Rape Cases

The Miami Valley RCFL examined subjects' computers in related cases of child rape that have, to date, resulted in prison sentences for two defendants. The cases involve an adoptive father, minor children under his care, and meetings that he arranged between adults and a child after posting an ad online. The Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force launched the investigations last year.

The adoptive father, who pleaded guilty to raping three boys under his care was sentenced to 60 years to life in December 2012. The same man faces additional charges in a neighboring Ohio jurisdiction and has pleaded guilty to child rape and complicity to rape for arranging meetings between a boy and adults. Sentencing in that case is pending.

This week, Jason Zwick, 30, the defendant in one of the related cases, entered a no contest plea to one charge of child rape allegedly involving a boy under the care of the adoptive father. The judge found him guilty and sentenced him to 10 years to life in prison.

A third man awaits trial on child rape and other charges.

Click here for a press account of the Zwick case.

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