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Sentencing set in child injury case

KEITH KINNAIRD | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 4 years, 10 months AGO
by KEITH KINNAIRD
News Editor | February 28, 2020 1:00 AM

SANDPOINT — A sentencing hearing is set for a Bonner County woman who was indicted on charges of aiding and abetting lewd conduct and felony injury to a child, according to 1st District Court records.

Sheenagh Elizabeth Adams entered into a plea agreement which jettisoned the aiding and abetting charges in exchange for a plea to the child injury charge, court records show. Adams entered an Alford plea to the remaining charge, which means she admits no culpability for the offense but concedes she could be convicted of it if the matter was put before a jury.

Adams, 36, faces up to 10 years in prison when she is sentenced on April 13. She was scheduled to be sentenced on March 3, although a state’s witness was unavailable on that date, court records show.

A Bonner County grand jury indicted Adams last year. She was accused of placing a 13- to 14-year-old girl in a harmful situation which allowed her to be raped by Priest Lake resident William Scott Wegner between May 2018 and January of this year.

Adams was further accused of attempting to conceal Wegner’s criminal sexual misconduct by securing a motel room for Wegner under an assumed name and attempting to conceal the teen’s pregnancy, according to court documents.

Wegner, a 40-year-old Priest Lake resident, was also indicted by the grand jury on charges of rape and lewd conduct. He was scheduled to be tried last month by a 1st District Court judge, but he failed to appear at the proceeding remains the subject of an arrest warrant.

Keith Kinnaird can be reached by email at kkinnaird@bonnercountydailybee.com and follow him on Twitter @KeithDailyBee.

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