Photo by Candice Black Sierah Caldwell, 20, of Marietta, was sentenced to 30 months of jail for her involvement with the beating of Devon Ours in Feb. 2021. She appeared before Judge Mark Kerenyi in Washington County Common Please Court Thursday morning.

“I wish I could change the things that did happen.”

Sierah Caldwell, 20, Marietta, was sentenced to jail for 30 months for her involvement with the beating of Devon Ours in Feb. 2021 and she made a statement during the hearing at Washington County Common Pleas Court before Judge Mark Kerenyi.

Caldwell was originally indicted on an attempted murder charge last February 2021 but it was reduced to a charge of attempted felonious assault, which she pleaded guilty to in Feb. 2022.

Her co-defendant, Steven A. Osborne, 20 of Little Hocking, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison, was the “main perpetrator. He justifiably should receive the larger sentence in this case,” prosecutor Nicole Coil said. “She did not participate in the felonious assault but it cannot genuinely claimed that she did not know about it or advocate for it.”

Caldwell and Osborne were dating at the time of the incident and while he was away on a barge, he used Caldwell’s social media accounts to talk to Ours, her ex-boyfriend, and planned to set him up.

“I literally talked to you about busting your ex’s head with my bat,” Coil quoted Osborne as saying.

Osborne and Isaiah Campbell, 17 of Belpre, attacked Ours at Campbell’s apartment and recorded it on video, Coil said.

“It shows Sierah Caldwell sitting on the couch in her apartment using her cell phone before the attack occurs,” she said. “She definitely is aware of what is going to happen as she moves out of the way in the video so that Mr. Osborne and the juvenile could begin the assault on him. On the other hand, she is the first to express horror of what she sees happening. She is the first to say stop.”

The prosecution asked Kerenyi for Caldwell to serve 3 years because of her knowledge of the attack beforehand and her decision to allow it to happen.

“It cannot be doubted that she had to know that injury was going to be inflicted on Devon Ours and that it would be great, based on what Mr. Osborne had told her,” Coil said. “Even though she never physically assaulted Devon Ours, the damage which she did, to his mind and that of the family will in some ways be less reversible than the medical, physical would that the other two inflicted.”

Defense attorney Robert Toy asked for Caldwell to be released Thursday with monitored supervision, saying he believes she has a bright future ahead of her. She later said she hopes to pursue a career in nursing.

“I am looking toward her future. She was a good worker,” he said.

He talked about the relationship between Caldwell and Osborne and he said she was under “constant pressure. And if you were more of an adult, you could handle that. But at age 18, she was unable to do so. She was completely under his sway. It’s not an excuse, it’s just the way it is,” Toy said.

A few of Caldwell’s family members attending the hearing and Toy talked about how they would help her when she gets out of jail.

Caldwell addressed the court and said she feels remorse for her actions and is sorry for the pain and suffering inflicted on Ours.

“I want his family to understand that I realize what I have done and I hope and pray that somebody you will forgive me,” she said. “There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about (the incident).”

After the sentencing, Toy reiterated that Caldwell is sorry for what happened.

“I have every optimism that when she gets out, she’s going to be productive. She’s had a very difficult life growing up but she does have family support,” Toy said. “I think that’s going to be helpful to her in the future.”

Candice Black can be reached at cblack@newsandsentinel.com.