State v. Rouse, Unpublished Decision (10-23-2003)

JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION.

{¶ 1} Defendant-appellant Earline Rouse ("Rouse") appeals the trial court's imposition of maximum consecutive sentences in connection with two separate cases. Finding no merit to the appeal, we affirm.

{¶ 2} In January 2001, Rouse was indicted in Case No. CR-400804 for child endangering. The indictment alleged that she tortured and cruelly abused her five-year-old son ("the victim") between January 1999 and March 2000.

{¶ 3} The police found Rouse's children sleeping outdoors on a mattress after they had been evicted from their home. Rouse could not be found at the…