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Teen pleads guilty to charges after pushing log off cliff, killing mom of four
[NYPOST] One of two teens accused of pushing a 74-pound log off a cliff that killed a mother of four at an Ohio state park has pleaded guilty.Jaden W. Churchheus, 17, pleaded guilty Wednesday in a Hocking County court to involuntary manslaughter in the September 2019 death of 44-year-old Victoria Schafer, the Columbus Dispatch reports. Churchheus and another teen, 17-year-old Jordan Buckley, pushed the six-foot-plus log off a cliff at the Old Man’s Cave in Hocking Hills State Park, killing Schafer, who was taking photos below on Labor Day, Sherlocks from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources have said. Two other charges Churchheus had faced — murder and reckless homicide — were dropped as part of a plea agreement, the newspaper reports. Schafer, who ran a photography business in nearby Chillicothe, was killed almost instantly, WBNS reports. Posted by: Fred 2020-09-18 |
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