Dawn Gentry is accused of having threesomes in her office with her secretary and a guitar player she hired to work in the court as her case specialist. There is no evidence that the guitar player, Stephen Penrose has any experience in the job he now holds, having previously been a pastor.
She is also accused of asking a lawyer to sleep with her ex husband so that she could claim infidelity when her divorce hearing comes up. She also asked the lawyer to join her and Penrose in a threesome. The lawyer reused both requests. She also flirted with male lawyers with whom she wanted to have sex with.
Gentry is now facing multiple charges and has been accused of showing favoritism to lawyers who donated to her reelection fund. She fired one member of a panel she works on and hired someone else who had donated four times as much as the member she fired.
Katherine Schulz sat on a panel with Gentry that was set up to hear cases about abused children.
She claims that Gentry told her to download Snapchat and then used it to ask her to seduce her now ex-husband, Brian Gentry, and also join her in group sex.
Schulz said in an affidavit obtained by The Cincinnati Enquirer that Gentry was trying to have her sleep with her estranged husband so she could then pin her divorce on him being unfaithful.
She then asked Schulz to have sex with her and Penrose at a legal conference, she claimed.
When she declined that request, their friendship turned sour, she said. Schulz later resigned from the panel.
Mike Hummel, who was also on the panel, said he was replaced with someone who donated four times as much as he did to Gentry’s re-election campaign.
He says she used her power on the bench to drum up donations.
The judge is now waiting for a disciplinary hearing which is due to happen in the next two or three months. She denies the allegations.
