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WARREN -- Felicia Banks Beemer, 36, the Warren woman who raped a girl, 8 months old, and a boy 18 months old, both on video, has been denied parole and must remain in prison for at least 10 more years.
The Trumbull County Prosecutor's Office announced the decision Thursday.
"With some criminal offenders, treatment is not a societal option; only punishment and incarceration works," Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins said of the decision. "Beemer's bad behavior while in prison includes predatory sexual assaults, physical violence and hateful speech."
Beemer is serving 15 years to life in prison for two counts rape, multiple counts of using a minor in sexually oriented matter and two counts pandering obscenity involving minors. She was sentenced on Nov. 2, 2012, by former Trumbull County Judge W. Wyatt McKay.
Her husband, Cody Beemer, was also captured on the video raping the girl and was sentenced to 25 years to life. The rapes took place while they were visiting the girl at Trumbull County Children's Services. Felicia Beemer's cellphone contained more than 500 images of child pornography.
At the time of Felicia Beemer's conviction in 2012, former Assistant Prosecutor Diane Barber, then head of the prosecutor's Child Assault Unit, said Felicia Beemer's offenses were "the worst form of the offense … (Beemer and her husband) preyed on children." Barber said, "Kids that age don't have the verbal skills to discuss it. And not only that, the victims were relatives of the defendants -- blood relatives of Felicia's."
Watkins said Thursday he was well pleased with the fast work of the Ohio State Parole Board in denying release to Felicia Beemer, who had her parole hearing earlier in August. Watkins and the head of his Child Assault Division, Assistant Prosecutor Gabriel Wildman, combined on a letter to the state parole board, opposing parole for Felicia Beemer.
In the letter, they talked about her bad behavior while in prison, stating "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 ... has amassed a staggering 85 documented disciplinary infractions."
They added that prison records illustrate 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!"
Among the many in-prison infractions are Beemer sexually assaulting another inmate during an activity in January 2025. She also committed many violent assaults -- including a hit-for-hire on a sleeping inmate -- diverting 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 had 14 documented acts of violence against others in prison.
Watkins and Wildman wrote: "Felicia Beemer is a corrections nightmare and monster child sex offender who needs incapacitation by incarceration until death... The evidence unequivocally illustrates that Felicia Beember is a predator, child pornographer, pedophile and a child rapist. She preyed on multiple children who trusted her."
They added, "She preyed on an infant and toddler. She even recorded herself having sex with a dog. She ensured that her crimes were captured on video so that her co-defendant and her could revisit, lust, and possibly victimize these children at their leisure."