John Ruediger was in his third term on the suburban council in Portage County when he was arrested in April 2021. He is now in Cuyahoga County Jail awaiting sentencing on disseminating matter harmful to juveniles, a fifth-degree felony.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A jury on Tuesday found a former Streetsboro council member guilty of a felony child pornography charge for exchanging obscene messages and photographs with a 13-year-old boy.arrested in April 2021
The jury reached the verdict after a three-day trial in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Kathleen Sutula’s courtroom.She scheduled a sentencing hearing for May 2. He faces up to a year in prison. Defense attorneys said in court filings that Ruediger did not know the boy’s age because Grindr requires users to be 18.
Ruediger then sent the boy a sexually charged message in which he said he saw through the window how “cute” the boy was, the records said.
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