Some of those judges down there in those counties like Stark and Carroll, I don't know. JMO, they see a lot of these as drug-related cases where both victim and perp are addicts, so a "victimless" crime. They're wrong, of course. Carroll and Stark county judges should have done more, but they're surprisingly lax. Some of us followed a case a while back of a little 14 yo boy who died of a fentanyl overdose while working on the dairy farm of a family friend one weekend. Never heard the real story, but it was believed the kid had a toothache and took a pill from a bottle of what he thought was a pain reliever.
It took the county prosecutor a really long time to charge the young man (drug addict) who ran the dairy farm for his parents and gave the pill to the kid. I almost thought they were going to let it slide. The guy later changed his story and said the kid wanted to take fentanyl, which was ludicrous. He finally admitted guilt but didn't say exactly how it happened and made it sound like an accident or blamed the victim. He got a maximum of 9 years. Unreal.
Jonathon Minard, the missing 14-year-old Carroll County boy who was found in a shallow grave on April 19, died from acute fentanyl intoxication, according to a news release from the Carroll County Coroner.
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An Ohio man has been sentenced to a minimum of six years for giving a 14-year-old boy a fatal dose of fentanyl and then burying his body in a shallow grave under a cow.
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