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WARREN -- A woman serving a 15-years-to-life prison sentence for the rape of an 8-month-old girl that was captured on her own cellphone is eligible for parole for the first time this month and Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins penned an 11-page letter earlier this week asking the parole board to deny it.
The letter was cowritten by Trumbull County Assistant Prosecutor Gabriel Wildman, who focuses on the prosecution of child sex and child pornography crimes as part of the Child Assault Division of the prosecutor's office.
Felicia Banks Beemer, now 36, was sentenced Nov. 2, 2012, by former Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge W. Wyatt McKay after she pleaded guilty Oct. 29, 2012, to two counts of rape, three counts of pandering sexual material with a minor and two counts of pandering obscenity involving minors.
She is serving her sentence at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville.
Cellphone videos showed both Beemer and her husband, Cody, raping an 8-month-old girl -- who is related to them -- during a visit at Trumbull County Children Services in April 2011.
The acts were captured on Felicia Beemer's cellphone, which also contained more than 500 images of child pornography.
Felicia and Cody Beemer also were convicted of raping an 18-month-old boy while the couple was babysitting him. That offense was also captured on Felicia Beemer's cellphone, evidence showed.
The Beemers' crimes were discovered when a relative saw the videos on one of their electronic devices and turned the SIM card over to police and children services.
Cody Beemer is serving a 25-years-to-life sentence on similar charges and he will have his first parole hearing in September 2036, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. He is housed at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution.
In their letter to the parole board, Watkins and Wildman talk about Felicia Beemer's bad behavior while in prison.
"Her prison disciplinary record for the amount of time served is the worst Prosecutor Watkins has seen since taking office in 1984. She has been incarcerated in Ohio's prison system for approximately the past 14 years, and Inmate Beemer has amassed a staggering 85 documented disciplinary infractions. A deeper dive into these records clearly illustrates that Felicia Beemer remains a violent sexual predator, who refuses to follow even the simplest of rules. It is not difficult to imagine the havoc she would undoubtedly wreak if she were to be turned loose especially when knowing that she is clear and present danger to others in prison," the letter states.
Her many in-prison infractions include Beemer sexually assaulting another inmate during a program activity in January 2025. Other violations initiated by Beemer during the last few years include her many violent assaults -- including a hit-for-hire on a sleeping inmate -- diverting or "cheek" controlled medications, faking seizures to manipulate staff, extorting or trading illicit and stolen property, and threatening and/or spewing hate speech to prison staff and other inmates. She has a total of 14 documented acts of violence against others while in prison.
"Felicia Beemer is a corrections nightmare and monster child sex offender who needs incapacitation by incarceration until death, when she goes to a place where evil is greeted," Watkins wrote. "The evidence unequivocally illustrates that Felicia Beemer is a predator, child pornographer, pedophile, and a child rapist. She preyed on multiple children who trusted her. She preyed on an infant and a toddler. She even had recorded herself having sex with a dog. She ensured that her crimes were captured on video so that her co-defendant husband and her could revisit, lust and possibly revictimize these children at their leisure," the letter states. "This case supports our view that prisons protect society from the malevolent like her and that Beemer's horrifying actions explains why democratic societies need life imprisonment or even the death penalty as a punishment. Felecia Beemer is an example of a nonrecyclable person. You can't change monsters into pets."
Watkins said Beemer has served 14 years and 10 months of her minimum 15-year sentence. He said in his letter that Beemer "is one of the worst child sexual predators this office has ever prosecuted" and asks the parole board not only to deny her parole, but also not schedule another hearing for 10 years, which is the maximum allowed by law.