Sex offender asking for bond in federal case

Saying his client’s “personal life is the portrait of stability,” the attorney for registered sex offender Jory Leedy is asking a federal judge to grant Leedy bond before his trial for allegedly sexually assaulting two young boys.

Leedy, 47, of Franklin, is being federally prosecuted for allegations that he sexually abused boys aged 7 and 8 for two years in numerous jurisdictions and states. Leedy allegedly met the two boys in 2012 while working as a volunteer bus driver for Target Dayton Ministries.

Defense attorney Richard Smith-Monahan’s motion stated that Leedy, who has lived with his parents the past 12 years, “could continue to live with his parents if released on bond, and his whereabouts could be monitored with house arrest and/or satellite based monitoring.”

Smith-Monahan further wrote that there are no minors or no weapons in the home and all computers were seized except for one, which Leedy’s father would make sure he has no access to. Leedy designed mobile applications, the motion said.

“Mr. Leedy has a good, stable relationship with family and friends, and was an active member of his church,” Smith-Monahan argued. “The important consideration at this point, however, is that if he were out on bond, he could work to help defend against himself against the allegations in this case.”

U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Black has not yet ruled on the motion.

“Leedy would go to poorer neighborhoods in the Dayton area and give rides to those who needed assistance from the ministry,” Hamilton County Sheriff’s detective Donald Minnich wrote in a criminal complaint. “Leedy showed an interest in the boys after taking them back to their residence.”

Leedy, a one-time assistant coach of the Dayton Bluehawks Squirt AA hockey team, is charged with two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor less than 12 years of age. If convicted, he faces life in federal prison.

Leedy served two years in prison after a 2002 Montgomery County Common Pleas Court conviction for gross sexual imposition of a minor less than 13 years old.

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