Foster mom indicted in child’s death

WARREN — A Champion woman who was serving as foster mother for 20-month-old Tiffany Sue Banks when the girl was found unconscious last April has pleaded innocent to murder and felonious assault.

Bonnie Pattinson, 31, of 663 Center St. West in Champion Township and 70 Broad Street in Newton Falls, was arrested Friday after a Trumbull County grand jury handed up a secret indictment.

She was brought to the Trumbull County courthouse, where she was arraigned on the charges late Friday. She is in Trumbull County jail in lieu of $1 million bond.

The indictment says Pattinson killed the girl as a result of committing felonious assault.

If convicted of murder, she could get 15 years to life in prison. The felonious assault carries a penalty of up to eight years in prison.

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