A 23-year-old Dayton man was sentenced by a Montgomery County judge to community control sanctions rather than prison time, though he now carries a 25-year sex offender registration requirement.
The Dayton Daily News reported that Judge Angelina N. Jackson sentenced him to community control sanctions.
How the Case Came Together
The investigation traces back to a referral Dayton police received from the Internet Crimes Against Children task force, according to the Montgomery County Prosecutor's Office. Investigators reportedly found child sexual abuse material on Word-Morgan's Snapchat account. The prosecutor's office has said Word-Morgan paid for child sexual abuse material and attempted to sell it, though the underlying investigative file was not made public.
Court documents indicate Word-Morgan will be supervised by a sex offender specialist as part of his probation. He was also designated a Tier II sex offender, a classification that requires him to register his address every 180 days for 25 years.
A Similar Sentence in a Separate Montgomery County Case
Word-Morgan's outcome mirrors another recent Montgomery County case covered by the same report. Skyler Frew, 25, was sentenced to up to five years of community control sanctions with intensive supervision by a sex offender specialist, and like Word-Morgan, Frew must register his address every 180 days for 25 years as a Tier II offender. Frew pleaded guilty to 10 counts of pandering sexually-oriented material involving a minor, while prosecutors dismissed 70 counts of that same offense and 115 counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor in his case. That investigation began in October 2024 after Butler Township police received information that Frew had child sex abuse images on his electronic devices.
Under Ohio law, a repeat-offense elevation to a third-degree felony under Ohio Revised Code Section 2907.321 applies only to a violation of division (A)(5), involving buying, procuring, possessing, or controlling the material; other divisions have their own classifications.
Both sentences reflect how Montgomery County courts have handled recent pandering cases involving child sexual abuse material, pairing community control with long-term registration requirements rather than incarceration. Word-Morgan's probation terms now place the burden of compliance on him for the next five years, with the threat of a prison sentence hanging over any violation.
