State v. Gebbie, C-060505 (6-22-2007)

OPINION

{¶ 1} Defendant-appellant Raymond Gebbie admitted that he had abducted two preteen girls. He now contends that the trial court's decision classifying him as a sexual predator was against the manifest weight of the evidence. This is our second of two cases addressing sexual-predator classifications after the Ohio Supreme Court's decision in State v.Wilson.1 In the first case, this court applied Wilson to a finding that an offender was likely to reoffend.2 In this case, we are asked to examine the conclusion of the trial court that the instant abductions were committed with a "sexual…