Jennifer Snyder, convicted in drowning death of teen, jailed on probation violation

YOUNGSTOWN

A woman who served prison time for child endangering and gross abuse of a corpse in the 2001 drowning death and dismemberment of 15-year-old Jimmy P. Higham is jailed as she awaits a probation violation hearing.

The hearing for Jennifer Snyder will be at 1:30 p.m. May 15 before Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

On behalf of the Ohio Adult Parole Authority, Robert J. Andrews, an assistant county prosecutor, has moved to extend or revoke Snyder’s probation, which had been scheduled to end on Jan. 19, 2013.

The APA said Snyder, 39, violated terms of her probation by admitting to her parole officer that she used heroin April 11, by failing to report to her parole officer as instructed, by failing to keep her parole officer informed of her residence and by residing with another probationer without her parole officer’s knowledge or permission.

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