WARREN — An Ohio appeals court has denied a Girard man’s appeal pertaining to the sentence he received when he was charged with having sex with a minor.

Orion Campbell, 20, was sentenced to 7 1/2 years after accepting a plea agreement to an amended indictment charging him with four counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and one count of corrupting another with drugs, during a hearing in courtroom of Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Ronald Rice in May.

In his appeal, Campbell argued that the trial court did make a complete finding that the consecutive sentence imposed on him was disproportionate to the danger he posed to the public and that his showing remorse showed he was not a danger.

In the eight-page opinion, Judge Matt Lynch wrote that while “imperfect,” the trial court “adequately made the required finding” on the proportionality of consecutive sentences, after the trial court had demonstrated Campbell had prior convictions and a history of criminal conduct that posed a danger to society.

This was demonstrated, according to the appeals court, after the trial court indicated that Campbell had previously been convicted of rape in 2018 and had already been designated as a Tier 2 sex offender for a different incident.

Before imposing sentencing, Rice told Campbell, “You are the boogeyman in every parent’s nightmares of what somebody could be around their children. You’ve already been convicted of a rape once. You know what the system…how it works. What did you do? You pursued and attacked a 13-year old girl. There’s no excuse for your behavior. You are a serial pedophile.”

Lynch also shot down Campbell’s second argument.

Lynch wrote, “Further, Campbell’s argument that he is ‘smart, creative, and artistic’ does not mitigate the risk he poses to the public given his repeated, similar offenses and serious criminal conduct.”

Campbell is serving his sentence at Belmont Correctional Institution.

The victim in the matter was 13 when their sexual relationship began in January 2021. The incident was reported by the mother and the victim in November of 2022 when she was 15.

During a recorded interview with police, the 15-year-old told officers she was introduced to Campbell by his brother at his home in the 100 block of Townsend Avenue after he had gotten out of jail.

The report states that Campbell fully was aware the girl was underage.

In March of 2021, she became pregnant and her mother insisted she have an abortion with documentation later being provided to police to prove the procedure occurred, a police report states.

The relationship between Campbell and the victim stopped in April 2022 while Campbell was incarcerated in the Trumbull County jail and later Cuyahoga County jail on charges not then related to their sexual relationship, the report states.

In November, a warrant was issued for his arrest, and he was later taken from Cuyahoga County jail in Cleveland and transported back to Warren to face charges related to the teen sex case.

Lynch was joined in his opinion by judges Mary Jane Trapp and Eugene A. Lucci.