Crime & Safety
Court Date Set for Apple Valley Woman Charged in Alleged Child Abuse Case
Ashley Marie Roff's omnibus hearing is scheduled for Jan. 14. The other defendant in the case, Carlton Raymond Lewis II, remains at-large.
The Apple Valley woman accused of beating her 2- and 3-year-old daughters with a belt and causing the younger child to suffer a brain injury will make her next appearance in Dakota County District Court in Hastings early next year.
Ashley Marie Roff, 24, is scheduled to be in court at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 14 for an omnibus hearing to answer to three felony charges and one gross misdemeanor charge in the case, according to the Dakota County Attorney’s Office.
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She made her first appearance in court on Oct. 2, a day after she was arrested on a warrant in Scott County. She was released from the Dakota County Jail on her own recognizance, said a jail official.
According to court documents, Roff and Carlton Raymond Lewis II of Apple Valley—who frequently stayed in the children’s home and helped parent the girls—repeatedly beat the children with a belt. Roff waited a week before taking the younger child to doctors after the child suffered a skull fracture in June. The 2-year-old was diagnosed with a diffused brain injury and was left partially paralyzed and unable to see out of one eye.
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Lewis, 23, has been charged with five felonies: two counts of malicious punishment of a child causing bodily harm, two counts of third-degree assault and one count of child neglect. He is also charged with one gross misdemeanor count of malicious punishment of a child.
Roff has been charged with malicious punishment of a child causing bodily harm (aid and abet), third-degree assault (aid and abet) and child neglect, all felonies, and a gross misdemeanor count of child neglect.
Nationwide warrants were issued for Roff and Lewis last month.
Lewis remains at-large. He has been added to Dakota County’s Most Wanted List for the warrant in this case, as well as a warrant issued Oct. 1 for giving a peace officer a false name.
Anyone who knows the whereabouts of Lewis are asked to contact local police or the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office at 651-438-4740.
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