Ex-Pa. prison guard sentenced for child abuse

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — A former Pennsylvania prison guard has been sentenced to six to 12 years in prison for child endangerment and simple assault charges against four adopted children.

Forty-one-year-old Annissa Schoolfield, who now lives in Cleveland, was sentenced Monday. She was convicted at a trial in March, although she was acquitted of a more serious charge of aggravated assault for allegedly putting a plastic bag over her adopted daughter’s head.

Schoolfield lived in the Erie suburb of Millcreek Township when she allegedly beat and otherwise abused the children from March 2007 to January 2010. She lost her job at the State Correctional Institution-Albion after the charges were filed in April 2010.

The children now live with her ex-husband, Eugene Schoolfield, in Youngstown, who tells the Erie Times-News he’s thankful the children have been heard and believed.