CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A Harrison County judge has asked attorneys on both sides to turn over evidence before he sentences a woman who has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges in connection to her running of a Salem boarding school for troubled youths.
The Exponent Telegram reports that Chief Judge Thomas A. Bedell recently requested to see the evidence in the case of Susan Gayle Clark, 69, who directed the now-closed Miracle Meadows School.
Clark is to be sentenced April 1 after pleading guilty to misdemeanor child neglect creating a substantial risk of injury, misdemeanor failure to report by a mandated reporter and misdemeanor obstructing a law enforcement officer.
Clark says she regrets not firing an employee accused of putting a student in handcuffs. She also has admitted to not properly reporting an accusation of sexual abuse or sexual assault.