Staff Writer
LISBON – Joseph Messenger, 28, of Hanoverton was found guilty of both endangering children and assault by the Common Pleas Court jury on Thursday morning.
Messenger had been accused of recklessly causing the bathtub scalding injuries to his daughter, who was 7 in October of 2019. The jury heard two days of testimony before deliberating for about three hours total beginning late Wednesday afternoon and after returning on Thursday morning.
Following the verdict, Assistant County Prosecutor Tammie Riley Jones requested Judge Scott Washam consider revoking Messenger’s bond and he be taken into custody pending sentencing. Washam instead increased Messenger’s bond from $50,000 to $100,000 personal recognizance.
djohnson@mojonews.com
LISBON – Joseph Messenger, 28, of Hanoverton was found guilty of both endangering children and assault by the Common Pleas Court jury on Thursday morning.
Messenger had been accused of recklessly causing the bathtub scalding injuries to his daughter, who was 7 in October of 2019. The jury heard two days of testimony before deliberating for about three hours total beginning late Wednesday afternoon and after returning on Thursday morning.
Following the verdict, Assistant County Prosecutor Tammie Riley Jones requested Judge Scott Washam consider revoking Messenger’s bond and he be taken into custody pending sentencing. Washam instead increased Messenger’s bond from $50,000 to $100,000 personal recognizance.
newsroom@reviewonline.com
LISBON Joseph Messenger, 28, of Hanoverton was found guilty of both endangering children and assault by the Common Pleas Court jury on Thursday morning.
Messenger had been accused of recklessly causing the bathtub scalding injuries to his daughter, who was 7 in October of 2019. The jury heard two days of testimony before deliberating for about three hours total beginning late Wednesday afternoon and after returning on Thursday morning.
Following the verdict, Assistant County Prosecutor Tammie Riley Jones requested Judge Scott Washam consider revoking Messenger’s bond and he be taken into custody pending sentencing. Washam instead increased Messenger’s bond from $50,000 to $100,000 personal recognizance.
newsroom@reviewonline.com
LISBON Deliberations are expected to continue today for a Columbiana County Common Pleas Court jury considering two days of testimony regarding the severe scalding injuries suffered in a bathtub by the 7-year-old daughter of a Winona area man.
Joseph Messenger, 28, Woodsdale Road, Hanoverton, is charged with endangering children, a third-degree felony and a first-degree misdemeanor assault. If convicted, he could face up to three years in prison.
During closing arguments on Wednesday afternoon, Assistant County Prosecutor Tammie Riley Jones reminded the jury of the testimony they had heard from Detective Jordan Reynolds, medical experts, a children’s advocate and even the child herself, now 8 years old, who testified from the courtroom next door by closed video.
djohnson@mojonews.com
LISBON Deliberations are expected to continue today for a Columbiana County Common Pleas Court jury considering two days of testimony regarding the severe scalding injuries suffered in a bathtub by the 7-year-old daughter of a Winona area man.
Joseph Messenger, 28, Woodsdale Road, Hanoverton, is charged with endangering children, a third-degree felony and a first-degree misdemeanor assault. If convicted, he could face up to three years in prison.
During closing arguments on Wednesday afternoon, Assistant County Prosecutor Tammie Riley Jones reminded the jury of the testimony they had heard from Detective Jordan Reynolds, medical experts, a children’s advocate and even the child herself, now 8 years old, who testified from the courtroom next door by closed video.