DUI Driver Cheryl Riemann killed Jennifer O'Boyle, hospitalized 4year old Summer Moll

[Tazzzz]

4 year old -Summer Moll
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The accident happened back in the last part of 2008, I have been following her story and wanted to share it.

September 24, 2008 TAMPA — Summer Moll has dozens of breaks in her little 4-year-old bones. She nestles in a hospital bed with a brace circling her neck and pins piercing her legs. With a tube in her throat, she can't talk.

She has been here for two weeks, since the day the SUV came barreling the wrong way on the Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway west of Brandon and smashed into her mother's car.

The crash killed her mother, but she doesn't know that yet. The driver of the car that hit her had been drinking, authorities say.

In intensive care in the days after the Sept. 10 crash, Summer didn't open her eyes. Now, though, she'll wake up for 10-minute intervals. The best medicine seems to be her favorite show, SpongeBob SquarePants, on the hospital television, so a family friend bought her several DVDs.

"Her eyes are wide and awake. She's listening," her grandmother, Tammy Rosian, said.

Summer is fighting and offering her family hope in a dark time.

People have been wondering about the little girl they read and heard about in news reports of the crash, how she's doing. They've posted messages on the Internet saying they are praying for her. On Tuesday, Rosian wanted everyone to see a picture of Summer, to see what drunken driving can do to a family, so she released photos of the child's damaged body in her hospital bed.

"I want them to see what happens when they get behind the wheel and hurt a family," she said. "It's not fair."

Summer's mother, Jennifer O'Boyle, died in a crash on the Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway the day before her 25th birthday. Summer was taken to Tampa General Hospital in critical condition. Deputies and doctors thought she would die, too.

Now that O'Boyle's memorial services are done, Rosian's new mission is to persuade people who drink — even one beer — to stay away from the wheel.

"Call a neighbor, call me," she said. "I'll come pick you up."

On the day of the crash, authorities said, Cheryl Marie Riemann, 25, drove the wrong way on the lower ramp of the Crosstown and hit O'Boyle's car near the 78th Street Exit.

Deputies said Riemann had a blood-alcohol level of 0.244, three times the level at which the law says a driver is impaired. A man had called to report Riemann's car driving erratically a few minutes before the crash, but police never caught up with her.

She has been charged with DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide and remains in Orient Road Jail without bail.

Rosian didn't want to talk about Riemann on Tuesday. Instead, she focused on Summer, whose condition had just been changed to serious from critical.

All four of her limbs are broken, and she faces another surgery to put the pins that are now on the outside of her legs on the inside, Rosian said. The grandmother is grateful for the well-wishes and the hundreds of cards people have sent.

Doctors haven't conducted an MRI test yet because of the pins, but she seems to be responding well mentally, Rosian said.

"She's our strong girl," she said. She's encouraged now that Summer can wiggle her fingers and toes in response to her, and eat a couple of spoonfuls of applesauce. "She's going to pull through. I know she's going to pull through."

But what Rosian really wants is to hear her talk, to hear her say the name the little girl calls her, Me-maw. "I say 'Me-maw just wants to hear you say Me-Maw,' " Rosian said. "But not yet."

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/article824174.ece



R.I.P.
Jennifer O'Boyle

Jennifer O'Boyle & Summer Moll
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Cheryl Marie Riemann, 25, DOB:10/23/82
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Name:RIEMANN,CHERYL MARIA
DOB:10/23/82
Booking #: 08055924
Arrest Date: 09/13/08

Current charges
1 DUI MANSLAUGHTER F2
2 VEHICULAR HOMICIDE F2
3 DUI WITH SERIOUS BODILY INJURY F3
4 RECKLESS DRIVING WITH SERIOUS BODILY INJUR F3
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Images from the accident site

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Joshua Adam Moll, 26
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Father of 5-year-old Crosstown Expressway victim charged in unrelated DUI
TAMPA -- The father of Summer Moll, the 5-year-old who was critically injured in a September head-on crash that killed her mother, has been charged with DUI.

Joshua Adam Moll, 26, was involved in a disturbance at the Rack in Hyde Park today about 1:40 a.m., when security asked him to leave, according to Tampa police.

Moll left but drove through the parking lot in "an aggressive manner," police said. He returned shortly after, driving erratically through the parking lot in a 2004 Dodge Ram 1500 with Texas plates before being stopped by Tampa police officers.

Officers determined that Moll was exhibiting signs of impairment and arrested him at W Platt Street and S Packwood Avenue. He became verbally abusive and made numerous threats during his arrest, police said.

For months after the crash, Summer lived with her maternal grandmother, Tammy Rosian. Rosian was given shared custody with Joshua Moll. Summer had surgery this morning to clean up a head wound. Doctors encountered some complications when they found an infection underneath the metal plate that was put in her head following the crash.

Rosian said she and Summer had lunch Monday with Joshua Moll, but that he never stopped by to say goodnight. Rosian and Joshua Moll have a custody hearing scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. "It's just sad that it came to this," Rosian said. "He knew she was going in for surgery at 5:15 this morning."

Rosian said Summer remains in the intensive care unit, and they're waiting on results from a CAT scan to determine what should be done next. Joshua Moll moved from Texas to Tampa to help care for his daughter and, in December, was granted shared custody with Rosian.

Under the arrangement, Summer was to continue to live with Rosian but would spend an increasing amount of time on weekends with her father, eventually living with Moll the majority of the time. It was immediately unclear what effect Moll's arrest might have on Summer's care.

http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/2009/02/father-of-4-yea.html

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Name:MOLL,JOSHUA ADAM
DOB: 03/29/82
Booking #: 09009334
Arrest Date:02/17/09
EMPLOYER PINK FLAMINGO
OCCUPATION DISHWASHER

Current charges
1 DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE M2 ( REFUSED BAC!!!)

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Tammy Rosian, 47, puts her granddaughter Summer Moll, 4, down for a nap in their Brandon home
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BRANDON — The little girl sits on an overstuffed chair, tracing little circles around the eyes of her Thomas the Tank Engine pillow. Casts have recently come off both arms, which, like many other bones in her body, were broken in a head-on collision.

Summer Moll is 4. Last month she was riding her new, bigger-than-before bicycle with training wheels, playing at the YMCA and at day care.

Now, 12 pins hold her tiny legs together beneath a SpongeBob SquarePants blanket. Her grandparents, Art and Tammy Rosian, care for her in their home. Every day, they clean the pins with a mixture of peroxide and water.

"The hardest part is seeing her discomfort," said Tammy Rosian, 47.

Summer hovered for weeks at Tampa General Hospital in critical condition, her skull fractured, both forearms broken, along with a thigh, a knee and ankle. Doctors inserted a plate in her skull to manage the swelling.

Then she began to recover.

Apart from the pins, the scrapes still visible on her face and arms, and a jagged line of stitches in her scalp, Summer bears internal scars. She chirps and whispers in frequent bursts. Sometimes she says her name or indicates something she wants. Weeks with tubes down her throat have bruised her vocal cords, her grandmother said.

And Summer is now wary of touch. "With all of the pain she has gone through," Art Rosian said, "I think subconsciously every time someone touches her she thinks they are hurting her."

Medical bills have already hit about $500,000, he said. He's waiting for word from an insurance provider, but expects the ongoing costs to be staggering.

To help with that, a group of well-wishers is hosting a fundraiser tonight on her behalf, sponsored by Success 101, a motivational group.

She will enter the hospital soon for up to three months of rehabilitation. But another battle is taking shape. Her father, Joshua Moll, absent for three years, wants custody. The couple never married, but had a seven-year relationship.

Rosian was granted temporary custody pending Summer's return to rehabilitative care, said Jennifer Reh, her attorney. "We continue to believe that the father has unilaterally and voluntarily not been involved in this child's life," Reh said.

Both Moll and his family law attorney, Ted Rechel, acknowledged that except for a few "gifts,'' Moll did not pay child support. Moll said he and O'Boyle agreed that he would pay down a debt they had accrued instead of paying child support. Mediation is set for November.

Reh will ask that "primary residential care" rights be given to Rosian, including the major decisions about Summer's care, with significant involvement given to Summer's father, as long as he shows consistency.

"Hopefully he's not attempting to capitalize on the situation and will stay involved," Reh said.

Moll has retained a personal injury attorney with hopes of recovering damages. "I don't care about the money," he said. "I just want to make sure her medical bills get paid."

Lost in the everyday care and looming custody fight over Summer is a critical question: Just how much does she know?

They haven't discussed the accident or told Summer that her mother is gone, Rosian said. But recently, Rosian tried putting a photo of O'Boyle in a curio cabinet along with her daughter's ashes, placing them at eye level where Summer usually sits in an overstuffed chair 8 feet away.

That night, Summer tossed and turned with apparent nightmares. Rosian moved the items to the hallway, and peaceful sleep returned.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article879595.ece

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January 29, 2009 Summer Mall
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Summer, wearing blue jeans, white sneakers and a wrapped bandage over her left ear, made step after unsteady step as she left the hospital. Her grandmother, Tammy Rosian, and father, Joshua Moll, who share custody, kissed her, walked with her and buckled her into the car.

Rosian said Summer still has healing wounds and a long recovery to go. Yet the move from hospital beds to king- and queen-sized beds back home, she said, will mark a much-needed return to normal life.

Summer has a lot to look forward to -- a visit to the NFL Experience this weekend, a Mickey Mouse birthday party and a February trip to Walt Disney World, not to mention the rat terrier named Mickey and the Maltese named Biscuit that bound about her room.

After speaking with reporters and saying goodbye to hospital staffers, Summer, Moll and Rosian prepared to leave. Tucked into the back seat of her "Mema's'' car, her dad waving from the sidewalk, Summer put her finger to her lips and smeared it into the window. She didn't stop kissing until the car drove away.

http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/2009/01/critically-inju.html

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Feb,20,2009 Summer Moll scheduled to have third operation since Tuesday
TAMPA — Summer Moll has had a rough week, even by her standards.

The 5-year-old girl, who suffered a fractured skull and lost her mother when an accused drunken driver smashed into their car in September, has had two operations since Tuesday and is slated to have another in a few days.

Last Tuesday, her father was arrested and charged with driving under the influence just hours before Summer went in for what was supposed to be a routine followup surgery, an operation that revealed an infection in her head wound.

"We’ve had a lot happen this week,'' said Summer’s grandmother, Tammy Rosian, while addressing the media outside Tampa General Hospital this morning. "It’s been very emotional for me.''

After finding the infection underneath the metal plate in Summer’s head, doctors had hoped to rotate her scalp and do a skin graft Friday, but weren’t able to do this because of a lack of good muscle around the wound, Rosian said.

So next Tuesday, doctors will take a piece of muscle from the little girl’s back and place it on the wound with the hope of building enough strength to eventually perform the graft.

Meanwhile, Rosian said Summer is in her usual good spirit.

"I can’t even imagine what Summer’s going through, but I can say that she is the happiest girl in the whole world,'' Rosian said. "Nothing gets her down.''

Summer's infection has cleared, and she’ll be loading up on hamburgers from the TGH McDonald’s to give her strength for next week’s operation, Rosian said.

"We own McDonald’s, I think now,'' her grandmother said. "The protein from the meat is what’s going to get her going these next couple of days.''

Summer has been moved out of the intensive care unit and into a regular children’s room.

Her Godmother, Rebecca Worthington, is spending the weekend in the hospital with Summer. She flew into Tampa from Chicago to see Summer for the first time since the wreck.

"She’s a champ. She is feisty, just like her momma,'' said Worthington, a close friend of Summer’s mother, Jennifer O’Boyle. "She’s got such a great spirit. It’s been really hard seeing her, though.''

http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/

[PoongyPrincess]

I hate drunk drivers, they are some of the most selfish people on earth. I'm so glad that little girl is improving, and hopefully one day she'll be completely healed physically. I doubt she can ever completely heal emotionally, but with the love of her grandma and the right therapy at least she'll be able to have a somewhat normal life.

[Tazzzz]

I hope Summer makes a full recovery from this, Thank God for Grandma, she really pulled through for Summer. Unlike her shit for brains no good Bio-dad. Hopefully his drunk driving will convince the courts, not to give him custody. I am pretty sure is is just after the big insurance pay out. As far as what I read he was never really a part of Summers life and didn't pay any alimony. The arrest record said he was employed as a dishwasher. So he must not even have any kind of heath insurance for her.

[Ninja0980]

Agreed Taz, the only thing he cares about is $$$$, nothing more than that. If your daughter nearly getting killed doesn't stop you from driving drunk, then nothing will.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

It was immediately unclear what effect Moll's arrest might have on Summer's care.What effect could it have? Nothing has seemed to work so far. That man has many miles to go before he will get custody.