Probation violation sends man to prison

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Bloyer said he forgot he had the sexually explicit materials.

By PETER H. MILLIKEN

VINDICATOR STAFF WRITER

YOUNGSTOWN — A judge ruled that a Boardman man convicted on child pornography charges violated his probation and will have to complete his original sentence.

Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court sent Jon Scott Bloyer back to state prison Friday to finish his one-year sentence. With credit for 294 days already served, Bloyer will be locked up for 71 days.

"You're a convicted felon. ... It isn't up to you what you may do and what you may not do," Judge Evans told Bloyer.

Bloyer, 46, of Sigle Lane, was arrested by his probation officer July 18 at his residence after a sheriff's deputy reported seeing him with a woman and minor child in violation of the terms of his probation at a festival in Lowellville on July 15.

Bloyer was sent to prison in 2004 on two charges of attempted pandering obscenity involving a minor from Trumbull County and two counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor from Mahoning County.

Judge Evans released him on five years' probation in May 2005.

Bloyer came to the authorities' attention in the summer 2003 after he forgot to sign off a Girard Free Library computer, and the next customer found child pornography on a Web page that showed Bloyer's name, police said.

Bloyer also was charged in Boardman in 2003 after police there said they found seven explicit pictures involving sexual conduct with minors in his home.

Testimony

In Friday's probation revocation hearing, Mahoning County Deputy Sheriff Charles Emery and Bloyer's probation officer, Gale Sanzenbacher, testified concerning sexually explicit photos of young women and sexually explicit letters they said they found in Bloyer's home and stuffed animals they said they found in his bedroom and car July 18. Sanzenbacher displayed the stuffed animals in court.

Emery said Bloyer admitted to him July 18 that he had attended the festival with the woman and child, and the woman confirmed this.

Under terms of his probation, Bloyer was forbidden to have contact with children and forbidden to possess children's clothing, toys or games without his parole officer's permission and barred from possessing sexually explicit material.

Bloyer testified he had received the letters and photos found in his home last month while he was in the Marion Correctional Institution and forgotten that he still had them. He added that one of the stuffed animals was one he had had for more than 30 years and that he was planning to give the other stuffed animals to friends with children.

Bloyer's attorney, George Kalafut, said five of the photos seized last month from Bloyer's residence were not sexually explicit and that some of them showed fully clothed women.

Saturday, August 19, 2006