Dismissed Federal Lawsuit is Appealed

A man who lost a federal court case against the city and police department has appealed.

Daniel Roth   in U.S. District Court in 2008 against the police department and county prosecutors who charged him with gross sexual imposition charges on which he was acquitted.

In late April, the last part of that case was dismissed.

Law Director Ken Kraus said Roth has appealed the dismissal.

Roth sued the police department and prosecutors over his 2005 arrest on sex charges. The charges were made by the 15-year-old girlfriend his his 30-year-old son, with whom Roth had had a falling out.

Roth said he had e-mails from his son threatening to frame him with bogus sex charges.

He reported his son to Beachwood police anyway after the younger Roth allegedly stole his father's credit card and charged $11,000 on it. Shortly after the son was indicted, the girlfriend told Strongsville police Roth had molested her at a carnival here.

Roth has contended that he should never have been charged because he showed evidence that his son concocted the molestation story as payback for having him arrested.