Sentencing delayed for doctor in Web sex case

6/12/2003

LIMA, Ohio — A sentencing that was originally scheduled yesterday for a physician convicted of soliciting what he thought was a 14-year-old girl online has been postponed in Allen County Common Pleas Court.

Geoffrey Snyder, 36, of Lewisville, Ohio, has been re|sched|uled to appear in court at 12:30 p.m. July 1 before Judge Richard Warren. Snyder was convicted of one count of importuning.

Lima police said Snyder solicited an officer posing as a 14-year-old girl for sex over the Internet. He was arrested Sept. 27.

Snyder was a family physician in Woodsfield and was the coroner in Monroe County, Ohio.