Crime & Safety
Apple Valley Couple Convicted of Beating, Neglecting Toddlers
In 2012, Carlton Raymond Lewis, II and Ashley Marie Roff were accused of beating the girls, aged 2 and 3, with belts and failing to seek prompt medical treatment after one of the children suffered a traumatic brain injury.
An Apple Valley pair received lengthy probationary sentences, but little jail time for abusing two young girls, then aged two and three.
According to the original criminal complaint from September of 2012, Carlton Raymond Lewis II, 24, repeatedly beat the children with a belt, leaving significant bruising. In June of 2012, the younger girl was admitted to the hospital with a brain injury, where doctors discovered that she was suffering a diffused brain injury with subdural hemorrhaging, retinal hemorrhaging, signs of a possible skull fracture and a fractured finger.
The girls' mother, Ashley Marie Roff, 25, noticed that the child was partially paralyzed, but didn’t seek medical treatment for days.
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Judge Shawn Moynihan sentenced Lewis to 120 days of local confinement, with credit for 56 days already served, ten years of probation and a $300 fine. He will also be compelled to take a parenting class and undergo a psychological evaluation.
Roff pleaded guilty to malicious punishment and child neglect on June 4. Two additional charges of third-degree assault and neglect were dismissed. Moynihan sentenced Roff to 20 days in Dakota County jail with credit for two, 10 days of community service, 10 years of probation and a $50 fine.
By the terms of Roff's probation, she will not be allowed to have contact with any person under age of 18 without prior consent of probation officer. She is prohibited from having minors in her custody.
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