Tuesday, August 21, 2007
YOUNGSTOWN – The city prosecutor is holding four child endangering charges over the head of a Hubbard Township woman. Police say the grandchildren she was supervising were found living in filth.
City Prosecutor Jay Macejko said today that the case of 47-year-old Deborah Jean Poe is being turned over to the Mahoning County Juvenile Court. Macejko said he will hold in abeyance the four charges until the case is investigated by juvenile prosecutors.
Meanwhile, Poe was released from the county jail Tuesday morning where she was booked Monday after she called police to her daughter’s Wilcox Street house, after a 2-year boy she was caring for took two of her pills.
She told police the boy had swallowed Tylenol and an anti-anxiety medication.The boy was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center. Macejko that he was held for observation, and the medication didn’t harm him.
Contacted after her release for jail, Poe declined to comment.
The 2-year-old was one of four children found in the house. They are 6- and 5-year-old boys and a 4-year-old girl. They were turned over the Mahoning County Children Services.
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