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A Warren Township woman accused of beating her 6-year-old daughter with a belt pleaded guilty to a reduced charge Monday in Lake County Circuit Court.<\/p>\nA Warren Township woman accused of beating her 6-year-old daughter with a belt pleaded guilty to a reduced charge Monday in Lake County Circuit Court.<\/p>\n
Jennifer Jordan, 28, pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated battery to a child during a hearing before Circuit Judge John Phillips.<\/p>\n
Assistant State’s Attorney James Newman said Jordan and her live-in boyfriend, Lee Terry-Hemphill, 21, were arrested March 13 by Lake County sheriff’s police. <\/span><\/p>\n Jordan’s daughter had gone to a social worker at Woodland Elementary School the previous day and complained she was in pain over her entire body.<\/p>\n The girl said Jordan and Terry-Hemphill had beaten her with a belt because she was late getting up for school the previous day, Newman said.<\/p>\n An examination by doctors at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville revealed bruises on her back, buttocks, thighs and arms that appeared to have been made by a belt, Newman said.<\/p>\n Detectives said both Jordan and Terry-Hemphill admitted striking the girl, and they found an 1\u00bd-inch<\/p>\n leather belt folded in quarters and wrapped in duct tape in the couple’s apartment on the 3400 block of North Almond Road.<\/p>\n Both were charged with aggravated battery to a child, a felony that carries a mandatory prison sentence of six to 30 years in prison upon conviction.<\/p>\n Newman said the charge Jordan pleaded guilty to is punishable by four to 15 years in prison, but also has the possibility of probation.<\/p>\n Phillips ordered a psychological evaluation of Jordan and scheduled a sentencing hearing for March 4.<\/p>\n Terry-Hemphill has pleaded not guilty and is due to appear in court Feb. 18.<\/p>\n Both are held on $500,000 bond.<\/p>\n Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n A Warren Township woman accused of beating her 6-year-old daughter with a belt pleaded guilty to a reduced charge Monday in Lake County Circuit Court. Jennifer Jordan, 28, pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated battery to a child during a hearing before Circuit Judge John Phillips. Assistant State’s Attorney James Newman said Jordan and her live-in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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