Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - ‘Sugar Daddy’ Doctor Case Takes Disturbing Turn

Episode Date: April 15, 2026

Francis "Frank" Kearse, III, was arrested in March in West Chester Township, Ohio and charged with soliciting prostitution from a minor, importuning and trafficking in persons. Kearse was a doctor, husband and father. Police said he gave a teenage girl vape pens and cash and then wanted "pay back" in the form of sex. But his case was dismissed suddenly after a grand jury indicted him. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy explains why in this episode of Crime Fix — a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.Host:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5Guest: Mark Weaver https://x.com/MarkRWeaverCRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Daniel CamachoGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We're going to walk down here. Where are your shoes at? Inside. Inside? Yeah. A doctor led out of his house barefoot in sweats, claims of teen girls, vape pens, and sex.

I'm going to be up front. Okay, I've got all your Snapchat records. I'll tell you about the charges the doctor faced and why the case was ultimately dropped. It's shocking. Welcome to Crime Fix. I'm Annette Levy. Frank Curse was a doctor with

what looked like a really good life, a big house in the suburbs, a wife, and two beautiful children. But police say Curse, like many people, had a secret that he kept hidden. It was dark, and it allegedly involved teenage girls. This case takes us to Sharonville, Ohio, a small city outside of Cincinnati, and to Westchester Township, one county to the north where Curse lived. On March 10th, police went to Dr. Curse's home with a search and arrest warrant in hand. A 16-year-old girl reported to police that curse gave her vape pens and gift cards. And in exchange, he wanted what police said he called payback. That payback police claim

was sex. We're going to walk down here. Where are your shoes at? Inside? Inside? Yeah. Okay. Can we, we're just going to put him in this truck. Me and him are going to attempt an interview. If you guys want to clear the house and then we'll start searching. Does that work? Can you guys clear the house? Sure, it's fine. Okay. They just got to do that.

Frank Curse isn't comfortable in the back of that cruiser. It's very clear, but he's not going anywhere. All right, Mr. Curse, before you ask any questions, you must understand your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say it can and would be against you in court of law. You have a right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, it won't be provided for you. Before any questioning, if you wish.

And if you decide to answer your questions now without a lawyer, You used to have the right stuff answering at any time until you talked to an attorney. Do you understand? Okay. Do you have any questions at all? I don't know what this is right about. Okay. I'm pretty straightforward, all right.

Does the name... Bill at all? It doesn't? Okay. Well, she's a 16-year-old girl that you met over on a lot of Gaves to have sex with. On what? The lot of Gables in Sharonville to have sex with. Okay. She came in and long story short, she filed a rape report. All right. You're not being charged with that.

You're being charged with importuning, all right, and compelling prostitution. Okay. Okay. I'm going to be up front. Okay. I've got all your Snapchat records. Got all your Texanile records. All right. You've been soliciting women, some of which are juveniles. for quite a while. Okay, and there's multiple girls, um, multiple girls that are questionable in terms of their age. All right. Exchanging vape pens, sometimes money, you're asking to be a sugar daddy, stuff like that. I'm not here to judge you, all right? Okay. But you've primarily used your Snapchat account to, to solicit girls, some of whom happen to be younger. All right. So again, she came in to file a report. What can you, what can you tell me about that day you met the second time in person?

I'm just going to not say anything about anything. Frank Curse says he doesn't want to talk, but the officer gives it another shot. Well, I want you to think about this, okay? I don't think you're like some bad dude. obviously there's some problems going on. With your marriage, what have you in life in general, maybe you're just depressed. But you're not talking. I mean, I'm not going to hear your side of things.

That's all. I don't think you're a monster. You know what I mean? But, okay. I'm going to put you over here in this cruiser. You want to step out? Which one? Over here.

In the Sharon Bill Cruiser? Take his shoes? We will. I'll get your shoes. Do you have anything on yet? No, I hear you. Spare your legs for me. Spare your life for him. Have a seat.

Where's your cell phone at? Where at? Be lawyered up. Oh. Have him hang out for a second. Sure. Just hang out for a second. I want to make sure we get his cell phone.

Yeah. I'll just hang out right here. And I'll explain everything to him. Okay. You go going straight to jail? Well, I want to make sure I get identified his cell phone. Keep him here until we identify his cell phone. He said it's probably in his bedroom.

Okay. So, and then we'll get him out of here. All right, we have a camera. I'll start snapping photos. Are you guys good? We're good. As all of this is going on, officers are preparing to search Frank Kurses' home. Hey, Sean, I've got some addendums.

Addendums. Yeah, some inventory. Addendums. Okay. If you can secure that after, you know, Keith photographs, stuff. Yes, sir? Like a razor. Yeah, you look like, like...

I was like, what is on your wrist, dude? Do we have, like, placards for the rooms or anything? Or do you want me to just follow you guys around right when you find what you take? I just follow Keith around. Okay. So he's in there photographing right now. He's photographing it? He's going to try to get over views everything before we start.

Keith, would it... I mean, I was going to say it's such a big house. Keith or Sean could photograph, like, downstairs or... I'm trying to... You know, which way his bedroom is betterment? I'm trying to knock them out pretty quick. They're just injured those. As the search continues, Frank Curse is in the cruiser outside,

awaiting the ride to jail, but he has a request. Could you just knock out a 527 for him right now? Yeah, I just wanted to know if you want me to add the arrest page. Yeah, I thought that... Because it only had suspect victim. Yeah, you can't, yeah. I thought that automatically did that in there when you start going to arrest.

Oh, like if you try to print from suspect, it might let me try to do it. Yeah. It might. Let me try. He had a question for you. Yeah. Yeah. It's a work thing I got to do today on a phone call. I just kind of wonder what that looks like timewise. I can make a phone call to your wife. You're going to jail.

Like there's no if, if, hands or buds. No, I don't know if they're going to cut you loose. Okay. All right? At the end of the day, this isn't a violent crime. So. Sorry? I said it's not a violent crime.

So I know you're probably not familiar. obviously with how the jail works. They're probably, they may not hold you, but if they do hold you, you'll see a judge tomorrow. So I don't know if you want to read it over this, but this is a certain point here. Obviously, just leave it, yeah, that's okay. If we could get out of here,

other courtesy, I appreciate that. I know. Well, we've got to identify your phone. What kind of phone is it? iPhone, probably by the couch. Okay. Do you just have one? phone? Yes. Is it in a case? I mean, it's just a typical case. What color is it? You said by the couch?

Somewhere around there. Phone by the couch. Did you guys turn this music on? Eventually, Frank Curse, a doctor is taken to the jail in Hamilton County. He's booked on charges of compelling prostitution, importuning, and trafficking in persons. He searched at the wall in the jail, just as any other inmate would be. An officer wrote in an affidavit, on or about the 19th day of October 2025 at Hamilton County, Ohio, Francis J. Curse III did solicit a 16-year-old juvenile to engage in sexual activity for hire. Francis J. Curse the 3 met the girl via Snapchat. Francis J. Curse, the 3, primarily uses his Snapchat account to solicit young females for, quote, sugar daddy relationships.

Prior to 1019, 2025, Francis J. Curse the 3rd provided gift cards to the girl before meeting her in person. He described these as nice and trustworthy gestures, but was needing some kind of payback, according to Text Now Records. On 1019, 2025, Francis J. Curse, the 3rd, met the girl on a lot adjacent to Lebanon Road in Sharonville. The girl entered Francis J. Curse the 3rd's vehicle and was driven to the parking lot. Francis J. Curse the Third exchanged two vape pens and $15 for sex from the teen. Frank Curse was booked into the jail. His mugshot taken and a judge ordered him held without bail. But then he was granted bail and released. Then a grand jury indicted him on the same charges and Curse was due in court on March 31st to enter a plea. But he didn't show up. And there was no way

that Frank Curse could make it to court because he was dead. The prosecutor of announced in court that Curse had decided to end it all rather than face these criminal charges. Frank Curse took his own life. So I want to bring in Mark Weaver. He is a prosecutor in the state of Ohio. He has prosecuted sex crimes. He's prosecuted lots of things. Mark, I want to talk to you about the fact that this doctor, Frank Curse, he, you know, he decided to end it rather than face the music here and the county where he lived butler county one county north of hamilton county where he was already facing charges the prosecutor there mike mozier told fox 19 news they had charges ready they were going to move forward and file charges against him in butler county so they had more

than one victim here and who knows what cana worms his this guy's phone opened for law enforcement because when the cops went to his door with the search and arrest warrants, they said, we got your Snapchat, we got your text now, you know, we got the goods on you. Yeah, this is the tale of the modern age. I will be in front of the grand jury later today on a few sex offender cases. In most of them, I'm not speaking about my cases necessarily, in most of them, as soon as we get the phone, we get new charges, and everybody has a phone. And so it appears as though with this now deceased defendant, that he probably would have had more charges in Hamilton County, where the first case was.

And by all accounts, Morin Butler, any one of these counts could have been a second degree felony or first degree felony. And if a judge were to stack those sentences, he could have had a prison sentence of 30, 40, 50 years. What's so stunning to me about this is that who knows what was going on with this guy. But he obviously, I mean, from the outside looking in, and it's always from the outside looking in on the surface, on social media, the guy had a pretty nice looking life. He had a nice big house in the burbs, a wife, two really cute kids. You know, he should have it all. and who knows what's going on with him. But the allegation was that he's soliciting underage girls for sex.

One of them was 16 years old, possibly others were younger because of the importuning charge. That involves children like 13, I think, according to the statute from what I was reading, but you're the prosecutor. Yikes. I mean, bait pens, gift cards, I want payback. You know, we got to get some payback here. I mean, it's so nasty. So what in the heck is going on with this dude who is now gone?

He's no longer with us. That you're willing to throw all of that away by giving some girls, some teenage girls, vape pens and gift cards in exchange for sexual favors. This is a reminder that external characteristics of success are unavailing. give me, if I had the choice, a modest home with a family who loved me and a lifestyle where I'm not looking over my shoulder, over a mansion where I'm doing these sort of really dastardly deeds in secret. And victimizing, these are children, right? The rest of us think, who's going to engage in a sex act for a vape pen or for 15?

And the answer is children whose brains aren't even formed yet. Their brains continue forming, and they won't be fully formed until they're in their early to mid-20s, at least for young women. And so he's taking advantage of that. He's also a doctor. So he knows this. It's not like I've had some defendants over the years who aren't quite mentally all there. They're enough to stay in trial, but they don't fully understand what they're doing to their victims. A doctor fully understands what he's doing to his victims. Well, the worst part about this, and, you know, we don't have the exact messages, but it sounds like he was giving them, meeting up with them on this text now and Snapchat.

This is what I'm gathering from just reading the affidavit. But it's like he's like giving them the vape pens and the gift cards. Like that comes first. But then it's like, well, I need payback. So like, is he being friendly with them at first and there's no mention of sex? And then it's like, but I need payback. And then these girls feel pressured because they got some bait pens and 15 bucks and some gift cards to then take part in sexual intercourse and they're teenage girls and they don't know what the heck to do. You know, and they may be vulnerable anyway.

I'm assuming these are girls that may be in vulnerable positions because maybe their parents aren't engaged with them. I don't know. But you know what I mean? And so I feel like there's something incredibly coerce. There's like an extra layer of coercion here aside from the fact that they're underage. I think you've identified it exactly correctly. These girls don't know any better. They think it's just some guy who's being nice to them and they don't know any better.

They don't know what's coming next. We as adults are all standing off, you know, in the wings of the stage going, don't do that. Something bad's about to happen to you. They don't know that. It reminds me the case I prosecuted several years ago. a 13-year-old girl who's had a sleepover with other 13-year-old girls, and they decide they want marijuana. And so they call an adult they know, and he drives over, and for $10 of marijuana, he says, one of you is going to have to have sex with me. And so they sort of drew straws,

not literally, but decided the one girl would do it. And for $10 of marijuana, she goes out in the car, that's what happens. We find out I prosecuted them. He was convicted. But it's a little bit like that. It's not the 13-year-old's fault, even though she quote-unquote agreed to it. It's the adult's fault who ought to know that children don't have the capacity to understand what they're doing. I kind of want to know, like, how in the heck was he even engaging with these kids? I mean, I'm assuming he's on the Snapchat and then maybe he's just trolling. Maybe he's seeing people and reaching out that way and then and then the communication goes over to the text now where there can be like maybe some easier communication um but then you know I'm thinking of myself

you get caught you know they they come to your house with the search warrant you're like you're like oh can we kind of wrap this he's in handcuffs and he's like can we wrap this up and like kind of keep this quiet can we like get this going and get me out of out of here because he doesn't want the neighbors to find out and then the cops like i'm going to call your wife can you imagine um so wife is going to find out i'm sure wife is like livid um these poor children now don't have a father um i'm not i'm not really sure how much of a father they had before this happened it's just really horrific um if he's out meeting up with teenage girls in parking lots but now we have you know the prosecutor going to court and she's in he's been indicted

by a grand jury. He's supposed to show up for court. And then she announces in court, hey, he's not showing up because he's gone. He can't show up. As a prosecutor, Mark, what do you have to say about that? Because it sounds like the judge and the prosecutor had wanted him picked up upon indictment, and that didn't happen. He had been held without bond at first. And then I guess his attorney got him out on bond. You know, if he, I guess you could say if he had been held in jail and you can't always just hold people, but if he had been held in jail, he may still be alive and there may be some accountability here because now there's not going to be any accountability.

Yeah, I'd love to catch up with the prosecutor about that, Elise Deeters. I know her and her family well. Her dad was the prosecutor in that county and I worked closely with him. Her grandmother was a judge in that county and I worked closely with her. Yeah, so she must be feeling this is upsetting. I've been there. I had a case indicted a sheriff's deputy for perjury several years ago. And between the indictment and the trial, he sadly took his own life.

And so justice didn't get done in a courtroom. Let's put it that way. So there is some criticism, I think, here for the judge. It's a close call on bond. remember when a judge is setting bond at least in Ohio the judge has to consider number one the seriousness of the charge in this case these are among the most serious charge as possible number two the potential risk to the community if you allow the defendant to be outside of jail while he's awaiting trial there's some small risk there to the public and then the third one is likelihood to

return for trial is this person going to flee and you know go to another country so it's an It is a close call. A zero O-R bond, a zero-cash-O-R-O-R-O-R-Kognizance bond is probably a little much. Having said that, somebody who's facing what this guy's facing, 30, 40, 50 years in prison, identified as a child sex offender. If he wants to take his own life, he will find a way to do that. Well, and it wasn't just, I mean, it wasn't just, you know, and I don't want to, I'm not minimizing these charges at all. We're talking importuning. we're talking solicitation of prostitution of a minor of a minor yeah and then trafficking in persons

I mean yikes and then you were he was going to be facing additional charges in the other county with we don't know how many more victims but there was a we know there was one victim the 16 year old girl in Hamilton County and then Butler County was looking to file more charges on him so oh and so he knows he knows what was in his phone he knew what was in his snapchat and his text now so my god like i i just can't believe i i'm shocked that they didn't pick him up upon indictment i am shocked um with that type of background information because you know that butler and hamilton were sharing information that they didn't go pick him up a lot of defendants are surprised uh the their Snapchat records are getable by law enforcement.

Because it's supposed to vanish. It's supposed to vanish. It doesn't. We regularly get them. Yeah, I've never been in this situation, but we can try to imagine what it'd be like when it realization sets in of what the rest of his life is going to look like. And I'm not suggesting he did the right thing by doing what he did. I can just imagine what was going through his head.

He, as you mentioned, he must have known that the evidence was all there and that the notion well, I'll just hire a really good lawyer and somehow we'll deal our way out of this. That's unlikely. Yeah, I don't think there would have been much of a deal to be had there. You know, Mark, whenever we talk about these types of cases, I know we always talk about how you and I are parents, and I don't think we can get this across enough. You know, as a parent, if your kids have these phones or access to electronics at all, you got to know what they're doing.

You got to know who they're talking to on these apps, or you've got to limit who they can talk to. You've got to be in your kid's business. Yeah, friends of mine and people I know from church and other places often ask me about that because they know that I prosecuted these kind of cases and they want advice. And my advice is always the same.

Number one, young children shouldn't have a phone. And when you get to teenage years, perhaps they should have a phone with significant oversight by the parent. And then when they're out of the house, they can do what they want. Hopefully you've raised them right. But there are numerous ways, and the kids all know it, about how to get around parental oversight. And so there is no substitute for a frank conversation with your children about the nefarious intentions of grownups who are acting like they like you for who you are when they really want something from. Yeah, I mean, this case, I mean, it just, it's, it breaks my heart.

because there are young girls who will never, they're never going to get justice. And people tried to get justice for them and accountability. And now it's not going to happen. And that makes me sad. Mark Weaver, thank you so much, as always, for your time. I appreciate it. Sad case, but yeah, thanks for inviting me back.

And that's it for this episode of Crime Fix. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. Thanks so much for being with me. I'll see you back here next time.