Detention center supervisor avoids prison time for sexual battery

7/10/2018
BY JENNIFER FEEHAN
BLADE STAFF WRITER

A veteran Marine with an unblemished record was placed on community control for three years Tuesday for having sex with a participant in the Lucas County Work Release Program where he was employed as a shift supervisor.

Wesley McClellan Kincaid confers with attorney Jerome Phillips during his arraignment in Lucas County Common Pleas Court Tuesday, April 17, 2018 in Toledo.
Wesley McClellan Kincaid confers with attorney Jerome Phillips during his arraignment in Lucas County Common Pleas Court Tuesday, April 17, 2018 in Toledo.

Wesley McClellan-Kincaid, 32, of the 3700 block of Linden Green Drive also was ordered by Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Myron Duhart to spend 60 days on electronic monitoring and complete a sex offender program through the Lucas County Adult Probation Department.

“Mr. Kincaid, a great deal of trust was put into you, and with great trust comes great expectations,” the judge said. “Quite frankly, I have no idea. I mean what were you thinking?”

“I wasn't,” McClellan-Kincaid replied.

McClellan-Kincaid entered an Alford plea — not admitting guilt — to one count of sexual battery. Three additional counts were dismissed as part of a plea agreement.

Defense attorney Jerome Phillips told the court McClellan-Kincaid served two tours of duty in the Middle East, was honorably discharged, and had no criminal record as a juvenile or adult. Mr. Phillips called the consensual sexual encounters “a crime of opportunity.”

McClellan-Kincaid resigned Dec. 13, and Mr. Phillips said his client would never be in the position of having authority over inmates again.

For his part, McClellan-Kincaid told the court he took full responsibility for his behavior.

“It has put a strain on everything on my life — family, otherwise,” he said. “I don't really know what to say. It's just shocking to me. I'm disappointed with myself actually.”

It was the second such situation with a county employee in recent years.

Last year, then-Lucas County Probation Officer Angela Kimball pleaded guilty to one count of sexual battery for having sex with a male client. Kimball, who was fired, also was placed on community control for three years and ordered to complete a sex offender program.