State v. Wardlow

This cause came on to be heard upon the consolidated appeal from the Municipal Court of Hamilton County.

This timely consolidated appeal follows appellant’s bench trial convictions of child endangering, a violation of R.C. 2919.22, and failure to report a crime, a violation of R.C. 2921.22(A). Appellant was sentenced as appears of record.

The record reveals that appellant’s thirteen-year-old daughter was the victim of a rape on January 22 or January 23, 1984 and of an attempted rape or sexual imposition on January 28, 1984. Both incidents were perpetrated by the appellant’s live-in paramour,…