Attorney Rominger in the News

Woman gets probation in child's death
by DON AINES-->
CHAMBERSBURG, PA.

Bobbette's attorney, Karl Rominger, said that the police investigation showed that the stopper for the tub was found on a high shelf and that the 3-year-old apparently used a washcloth to plug the drain.

"This is a one-time tragedy for which she is truly contritious and sorry," Rominger said.

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A Chambersburg woman whose infant daughter drowned and twin son was permanently disabled last year in the bathtub of their home was sentenced Wednesday in Franklin County Court to six years on probation.

"Certainly, you carry the responsibility for the lack of supervision ... if indeed this is how it happened," Judge Douglas Herman told Jessica R. Bobbette as he sentenced her on three counts of recklessly endangering another person.

"There was evidence you were using alcohol, which may have contributed to what occurred," Herman told Bobbette. "If you had been properly supervising the children, it wouldn't have happened."

Bobbette, 21, of 300 A S. Second St. had originally been charged with a felony count of endangering the welfare of a child, but pleaded guilty Nov. 10 to the misdemeanor charges, according to court records. She was charged in the Nov. 2, 2004, incident at her former home on Linden Avenue that resulted in the death of 11-month-old Jaliey Aviles and injury to Jahleel Aviles. - READ MORE