BAKER CITY â A former guard at the Powder River Correctional Facility, who has spent nearly a year behind bars at the Baker County Jail, will spend the next 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to child pornography charges on Tuesday, March 9, in Baker County Circuit Court.
Judge Matt Shirtcliff sided with District Attorney Greg Baxter in taking the harsher end of a plea agreement that ranged from five years to 15 years in prison in sentencing David Leon Cernazanu.
As part of the agreement, Cernazanu, 49, pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree encouraging child sexual abuse, a Class C felony.
Cernazanu will be given credit for time served and the ability to earn good time toward earlier release while in prison.