Unamused Cat
February 10th, 2009, 01:35 AM
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Beth Neff
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Kylee Tolber
The mother of a 16-month-old toddler who died in 2006 expressed relief yesterday when a jury returned a guilty verdict against the woman accused of her murder.
Jessica Rowan had given her daughter, Kylee Tolber, to the child's father for a visit on Oct. 21, 2006. Six days later, Kylee died of head injuries at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
After Beth A. Neff, 24, was found guilty of murder and child endangering, Rowan hugged her mother, Lisa Rouse. Both women said they were pleased with the verdicts.
"All the tenseness is now gone, and I know it's going to be good from here," said Rowan, who lives in Nashville, Tenn. The Franklin County Common Pleas jury was hung on a third count of felonious assault.
Louis Tolber, Kylee's father, was Neff's boyfriend. Neff had been caring for Kylee when she called paramedics to her home on Chapel Stone Road on the Far East Side, saying Kylee was ill. When medics arrived, they found the child behind a seat cushion on a sofa.
A pathologist from the Franklin County coroner's office testified that Kylee died of blunt-force head trauma that would have made her immediately unconscious.
But a pathologist from Indiana who reviewed Kylee's autopsy report testified that she could have been injured up to 24 hours before medics were called.
Defense attorney Byron L. Potts did not deny the child had been abused but maintained that Louis Tolber could have caused her fatal injuries before Neff was left alone with her. He said Neff will appeal.
Neff's family left the courtroom upset and in tears. She could be sent to prison for 22 years to life when she is sentenced March 10 by visiting Judge Dale A. Crawford.
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/02/05/beth_neff.ART_ART_02-05-09_B4_R9CQ7NU.html?sid=101
Thanks NR. =^.^=
Beth Neff
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg107/snarkyphotos/kylee.gif
Kylee Tolber
The mother of a 16-month-old toddler who died in 2006 expressed relief yesterday when a jury returned a guilty verdict against the woman accused of her murder.
Jessica Rowan had given her daughter, Kylee Tolber, to the child's father for a visit on Oct. 21, 2006. Six days later, Kylee died of head injuries at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
After Beth A. Neff, 24, was found guilty of murder and child endangering, Rowan hugged her mother, Lisa Rouse. Both women said they were pleased with the verdicts.
"All the tenseness is now gone, and I know it's going to be good from here," said Rowan, who lives in Nashville, Tenn. The Franklin County Common Pleas jury was hung on a third count of felonious assault.
Louis Tolber, Kylee's father, was Neff's boyfriend. Neff had been caring for Kylee when she called paramedics to her home on Chapel Stone Road on the Far East Side, saying Kylee was ill. When medics arrived, they found the child behind a seat cushion on a sofa.
A pathologist from the Franklin County coroner's office testified that Kylee died of blunt-force head trauma that would have made her immediately unconscious.
But a pathologist from Indiana who reviewed Kylee's autopsy report testified that she could have been injured up to 24 hours before medics were called.
Defense attorney Byron L. Potts did not deny the child had been abused but maintained that Louis Tolber could have caused her fatal injuries before Neff was left alone with her. He said Neff will appeal.
Neff's family left the courtroom upset and in tears. She could be sent to prison for 22 years to life when she is sentenced March 10 by visiting Judge Dale A. Crawford.
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/02/05/beth_neff.ART_ART_02-05-09_B4_R9CQ7NU.html?sid=101
Thanks NR. =^.^=