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wdtony:
Lance Tiernan is to be in court today. 2-9-12

I saw it on local news.

wdtony:
http://www.13abc.com/story/16903322/ohi ... home-death

Ohio teen to be tried as adult in group home death

Posted: Feb 09, 2012 8:16 PM EST
Updated: Feb 09, 2012 8:16 PM EST

HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio judge has ruled that a teen accused of assaulting a fellow group home resident who later died from his injuries should be tried as an adult.

The 17-year-old youth was charged with murder in juvenile court in Hamilton in December. A court official says the judge on Thursday ordered the teen transferred to adult court.

A grand jury will review the case. Bail was set at $1 million.

Police said the teen body-slammed 16-year-old Anthony Parker to the floor in a dispute and that Parker hit his head. Parker was taken to a hospital Dec. 19 and died Dec. 28. An autopsy determined Parker died from blunt force trauma to the head.

The boys were at a Fairfield Township home for children who have been abused, neglected, have disabilities or are otherwise troubled.

Reddit TroubledTeens:
A few more articles:

http://www.wlwt.com/r/30421297/detail.html

http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/m ... 26222.html

http://www.fox19.com/story/16900766/but ... me-killing

Reddit TroubledTeens:
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/2012 ... ting-death

Teen to be tried as adult in beating death
7:33 PM, Feb. 9, 2012  |  
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Lance Tiernan, 17 was bound over as an adult by Judge Ronald Craft in Butler County Juvenile Court in Hamilton for the beating death of 16-year-old Anthony Parker at One Way Farm in December. / The Enquirer/ Tony Jones
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Defense attorney Charlie M. Rittgers and Butler County prosecutor Mike Gmoser, along with other court room officers, watch a video in court. / The Enquirer/Tony Jones

HAMILTON — A 17-year-old boy was ordered held on a $1 million bond after a judge decided he should be tried as an adult in the beating death of a fellow resident at the One Way Farm group home in December.

Butler County Juvenile Judge Ronald Craft made the decision Thursday immediately after watching a security video of the incident and listening to police, group home residents and One Way Farm staff members testify about the case.

Lance Tiernan is charged with murder in the Dec. 19 beating of Anthony Parker, 16. He faces a mandatory prison sentence of 15 years to life if convicted.

Authorities said Lance slapped Anthony, picked him up and threw him headfirst on the floor, then punched him in the head some more.

Anthony died nine days after the attack. Butler County Prosecutor Michael Gmoser said Anthony had a brain bleed from a skull fracture and never regained consciousness.

Lance’s attorney, Charlie M. Rittgers, argued Thursday that his client wasn’t trying to kill Anthony and suggested that the altercation was provoked.

Mickey Marlow, a supervisor at Butler County Juvenile Detention where Lance has been incarcerated since the incident, said Lance told him that Anthony had made a threat against his family.

“The young man said he was going to rape his sister and kill his mother,” Marlow testified about what Lance told him.

But Lance also had another story. He gave Fairfield Township police a written statement saying he was “having a bad day” because he missed his mother and sister and was sick of listening to banter between Anthony and another boy about a flashlight.

Anthony, who stood about 5-feet-9 and weighed about 132 pounds, was seated on the floor of the living room at the time. Lance, much larger at about 6-feet-4 and 215 pounds, was seated on a love seat across from Anthony, Gmoser said.

“I was having a bad day and the boys were arguing about a flashlight,” Fairfield Township Police Sgt John Vanderyt read Lance’s statement in court. “I wasn’t in the mood so I asked Anthony if his name was on the flashlight. He said nothing to me and mumbled (an expletive) and that set me off.”

Officials at One Way Farm said Anthony at first did not show any signs of being seriously injured, but they later found him unconscious and called 911.

Dee Power, a One Way Farm employee who was on duty, said she did not see Lance slam Anthony to the floor, but did intervene after witnessing Lance throw a punch. She said Anthony told her that he was OK, so she didn’t call for emergency treatment nor did she check him for signs of serious injury. The staff is trained in CPR and basic first aid, Power said.

Although the altercation was videotaped by a security camera, Power said she didn’t think it was necessary to review it to see what actually happened.

Power said she left work at 10 p.m. Anthony was found unresponsive about 11:30 a.m., about four hours after the attack. The assault was not initially reported to police.

Gmoser criticized a lack of training and the delayed medical treatment by One Way Farm staff in his closing arguments to the judge.

“If there’s ever going to be any good that comes out of this case, it’s going to be that these people that have so much experience ... they are going to get some training in head traumas so that when these kids do get beat up ... that they don’t go to bed that night and end up dead in the morning,” Gmoser said.

“This young man was damaged, fractured, injured and he went to sleep and he essentially never woke up because nobody was paying attention or had the knowledge and skill to know that when you get dumped on your head and pounded into the ground and bashed with a hammer blow or jabbed with a fist, by God some bad things are going to happen.”

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, which licenses One Way Farm, also is investigating the incident. A spokesman at the state agency did not return calls on the status of the investigation.

wdtony:
Good post, As more details come out we can get a better picture of what really happened. It seems more like program staff could be more to blame for the outcome. I would like to see the video.

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