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Sex offender gets seven years for failure to register
DAYTON — A sex offender who failed to register after moving from Indiana to Dayton was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison.
U.S. District Senior Judge Walter H. Rice sentenced Alfred W. Cash late Tuesday, March 24. Cash pleaded guilty Dec. 11 to one count of failure to register as a sex offender.
Cash, 50, who moved from Indiana to Dayton in 2007, is currently serving a six-year sentence in state prison for Nov. 2008 convictions of gross sexual imposition of a child younger than age 13. He will serve his federal term after finishing his state term.
Cash’s sentence was enhanced because he committed the state crime of gross sexual imposition while he was unregistered in Ohio, according to Gregory G. Lockhart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio.
Once he is released from prison, Cash will be required to stay under U.S. District Court supervision for the rest of his life, and to register as a sex offender.
In 1990, Cash was convicted in Oklahoma of child rape. He moved to Indiana in 1998, where he maintained his required sex offender registration from 2004 until July 2007, Lockhart said.
Cash never notified Ohio authorities when he moved to Dayton in September, 2007. Under the Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), Cash is required to register as a sex offender as a result of his 1990 rape conviction in another state.
Dayton police arrested Cash on Sept. 2 on an arrest warrant out of Indiana, due to his failure to update his sex offender registration there. He has been in police custody since his arrest.
A Montgomery County grand jury indicted Cash three weeks later on four counts of gross sexual imposition of a child younger than 13 and two counts of public indecency. He pleaded guilty to two of the GSI counts on Nov. 26 and Common Pleas Judge Gregory F. Singer sentenced him on Jan. 8.
SORNA is part of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act passed by Congress in 2006. The law requires anyone convicted of sex crimes under federal law, or anyone convicted in state court and traveling in interstate commerce, to register with law enforcement agencies where they live, work or are a student.
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