Friday, May 19, 2000
Man faces hearing in baby death
Grand jury indicted him and his wife
By Tom O'Neill
The Cincinnati Enquirer
BATAVIA — A hearing on evidence will be held Monday against a Hillsboro man charged recently in the 1998 death of his infant daughter.
Jerry Bittner, 36, formerly of Goshen Township, Clermont County, and his wife, Bonnie Bittner, 30, were indicted by a grand jury in March on one count each of manslaughter and child endangering.
Ms. Bittner's trial is set for July 17 in Clermont County Common Pleas Court.
A trial date has not been set for Mr. Bittner.
The couple misled investigators into what led to the June 24, 1998, death of their 6-month-old daughter, Serena Rose Bittner, township police say.
“It was constantly under investigation; it was never closed,” Goshen Township Officer Kent Arter said Thursday. “At first we couldn't get a witness to come forward.”
The two-year investigation led police to four states, including Virginia, where one of the Bittners was living when a witness provided new information, Officer Arter said.
Emergency workers responded to the 200 block of Redbird Drive, in the Woodville Gardens Mobile Home Park, after getting a call that a baby wasn't breathing.
The baby suffered heat-
related trauma and died at Bethesda North Hospital.
“They gave different stories,” Officer Arter said, “and concealed the fact that the baby was left in the car.”
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