Woman receives probation in abuse case

A woman accused of abusing a child, who was her ward, was placed on one year of probation.

Malonie L. O’Toole, 47, of Green River appeared in the Third District Court of Judge Richard Lavery at a sentencing hearing to three counts of child abuse.

In exchange for O’Toole’s guilty plea to a reduced misdemeanor charge of reckless endangering, all of the other charges were dismissed. O’Toole was given a one-year suspended jail sentence and placed on one year of unsupervised probation.

According to court documents, on Feb. 23, 2016, a Green River Police officer spoke with a Lincoln Middle School co...