FOSTER MOM SENTENCED

 

A woman originally scheduled for trial this week for child abuse has averted trial and is preparing to report to jail.

 

Yolanda Royal (DOB: 7-17-65) was sentenced last Tuesday, November 18, 2003, on her earlier guilty plea to child abuse (M1).  Royal was sentenced to one year of probation, which includes a mental health evaluation, 180 days in jail (of which 106 were suspended), 60 days of electronic home monitoring and 150 hours of community service.  She has been ordered to begin serving her jail sentence on December 8, 2003.

 

Royal was charged last summer in connection with the abuse of a 15-year-old developmentally disabled girl for whom she was the foster parent.  On June 11, 2003, the girl was found in a closet at Royal’s residence by a social worker conducting a scheduled visit. 

 

 

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