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WARREN -- A woman serving a 15-years-to-life prison sentence for the rape of an 8-month-old girl captured on her own cellphone will have to wait 10 years for another shot at parole.
Felicia Banks Beemer, 36, has been denied parole and must remain in prison for at least 10 more years, according to the Trumbull County Prosecutor's Office.
Beemer, incarcerated at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, will have her next parole hearing in June 2036.
Cellphone videos showed Beemer and her husband raping an 8-month-old female child during a visit to Trumbull County Children Services in April 2011. The acts were captured on Beemer's cellphone, which also contained more than 500 images of child pornography.
Felicia and her husband Cody were convicted of raping an 18-month-old male relative while the couple was babysitting him, and that offense was also captured on Felicia Beemer's cellphone, evidence showed.
Beemer was sentenced Nov. 2, 2012, by former Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge W. Wyatt McKay, on convictions of two counts of rape, three counts of pandering sexual material with a minor and two counts of pandering obscenity involving minors.
A prosecutor's office news release states that, at the time of her 2012 conviction, former Assistant Prosecutor Diane Barber -- then head of the office's Child Assault Unit -- deemed Beemer and her husband's offenses to be the "worst form" of it.
"(Beemer and her husband) preyed on children -- one of them under 1-year-old. The other is under 2 years," Barber said. "Kids that age don't have the verbal skills to discuss it. And not only that, the victims were relatives of the defendants -- blood relatives of Felicia's."
Prosecutor Dennis Watkins and Assistant Prosecutor Gabriel Wildman collaborated on a letter to the state parole board opposing Beemer's parole, noting her behavior in prison, deeming it the worst Watkins has seen since taking office in 1984.
"She has been incarcerated in Ohio's prison system for approximately the past 14 years, and Inmate Beemer has amassed a staggering 85 documented disciplinary infractions," The letter states. "A deeper dive into these records clearly illustrates that Felicia Beemer remains a violent sexual predator who refuses to follow even the simplest of rules."
It is not difficult to imagine the havoc she would undoubtedly wreak if she were to be turned loose, especially when knowing that she is (a) clear and present danger to others in prison," the letter adds.
Some of Beemer's prison violations include sexually assaulting another inmate during a Jan. 2025 program activity, "many violent assaults," such as a hit-for-hire on a sleeping inmate, faking seizures to manipulate prison staff and trading illicit and stolen property.
Beemer has committed a total of 14 documented acts of violence in prison, the release states.
Watkins and Wildman called Beemer a "corrections nightmare" who needs incapacitation by incarceration until death, noting that the evidence illustrates her nature.
"She preyed on multiple children who trusted her. She preyed on an infant and toddler. She even had recorded herself having sex with a dog," the letter states. "She ensured that her crimes were captured on video so that her co-defendant and her could revisit, lust, and possibly revictimize these children at their leisure."