The 26-year-old North Side man pleaded guilty to charges in both cases today in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.
He faces up to eight years in prison after being convicted of one count of gross sexual imposition, one count of attempted gross sexual imposition and two counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material.
Judge John A. Connor denied a request by defense attorney Sheryl Munson to release Gavorcik until sentencing on April 23. The judge said he has a duty to protect the community.
Assistant County Prosecutor Brant Cook objected to the defense request, saying Gavorcik displayed “an impulse-control problem” when he drove outside Thomas Elementary School on Tuttle Crossing Boulevard with pornography in his car after being charged in the molestation case.
The guilty pleas mean Gavorcik must register as a sexual offender every six months for 25 years, the judge said.
Cook said Gavorcik attended a block party May 26 in a Groveport neighborhood, where he fondled two 10-year-old boys through their clothing. One of the boys told a parent, and Gavorcik fled when adults confronted him. He was arrested that day.
He was out on bail when parents and staff members at the elementary school called police to report that a suspicious-looking man was driving around the school in a white Pontiac, looking at children. On Nov. 15, Dublin police spotted the car and stopped it for a traffic violation with Gavorcik behind the wheel. Officers found binoculars and pornographic photos of children in the car.
Similar photographs were found during a search of Gavorcik's home at 155 Broad Meadows Blvd.
The families of the Groveport victims attended yesterday's hearing. One of the mothers told reporters she will push for jail time at Gavorcik's sentencing.
Gavorcik attended the party with a family friend, she said. “A word to the wise to parents out there: ‘You can never trust everybody.' ”
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.........Sarah Tofte
.........Sarah Tofte
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