Metro Digest || Sentenced for assaulting baby

Sentenced for assaulting baby

WARREN

Joseph F. Clark, 22, of Royal Mall Drive, Niles, was sentenced to 90 days in the Trumbull County jail on charges of felonious assault and child endangering for breaking a 16-month-old boy’s leg in two places.

Clark pleaded guilty in March. Authorities said the assault occurred Oct. 13, 2010, at the apartment where Clark lived with the boy’s mother.

Clark must stay away from the boy, be on intensive- supervision probation for five years and complete anger- management and child-care/parenting programs. He will spend eight years in prison if he violates the terms.

During sentencing Thursday in the courtroom of Judge John M. Stuard, the great-aunt of the victim told Judge Stuard she has had custody of the boy since Nov. 1. The woman said she saw bruises on the boy nearly every weekend when she would baby-sit him and insisted that her niece call the Trumbull County Children Services Board. A few days later, the boy had to be taken to the hospital for a leg injury that turned out to be a double fracture.

Motorcycle accident

CHAMPION

A Champion woman and Howland man were injured in an accident at 10:15 p.m. Wednesday when they were ejected from the motorcycle on which they were riding.

Jacqueline Nalbach, 49, of Center Street West, was in serious condition at St. Elizabeth Health Center. She was a passenger on a motorcycle driven by Carl McGovney, 47, of Wheelock Drive, who was in stable condition at Trumbull Memorial Hospital.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol said McGovney and Nalback were westbound on state Route 305 near Louise Avenue when a car driven by Forrest Sharp, 19, of Greenfield Oval in Champion turned east onto Route 305 from a stop sign on Louise and pulled into the path of the motorcycle.

Neither person on the motorcycle was wearing a helmet.

Sharp and his passenger, Thomas Stroup, 20, of Deer Trail, Cortland, were not injured.

Tractor show reset

BOARDMAN

The Antique Tractor Show, presented by the Mahoning County Board of Developmental Disabilities and the Antique Tractor Club of Trumbull County, will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. next Friday at Bev MASCO, 825 Bev Road. The event, originally scheduled for today, was rescheduled because of expected rainy weather. A tractor parade will follow the show.