Convicted child molester gets 170.5 year prison term

DEARBORN COUNTY, Ohio (WKRC) - A convicted Dearborn County child molester was facing a lengthy prison term and that's exactly what he got Thursday, November 10.

A judge sentenced Steven Rekowski to 170 and a half years in prison. During sentencing, the judge described in graphic detail what was on some of the video and files that belonged to Rekowski. For some family members it was too much, they walked out of the courtroom.

Rekowski’s long hair and beard covered much of his face as he emerged from the elevator to enter the courtroom for sentencing. Cameras were not permitted in Indiana courts. Rekowski was charged with molesting four children ages four to ten. It's believed he may have molested another five to ten.

Rekowski was arrested after a friend found child pornography on his cell phone. A mother of one of the victims locked him in a laundry room until police arrived. Investigators discovered hundreds of thousands of files; a third contained child pornography.

Prosecutor Aaron Negangard said it was one of the worst child molestation cases he had prosecuted. Negangard said he was not sure if the thousands of remaining multimedia files of Rekowski will be examined. He said there were so many it could take a forensic investigator the rest of their career to review them.