State v. Bush

Citations

• 152 N.E.3d 892
• 2020 Ohio 772

Syllabus

CHILD ENDANGERING – EVIDENCE – MENS REA – RECKLESSNESS: Defendant mother's conviction for child endangering was not supported by sufficient evidence that she had acted with reckless intent where the evidence showed she lost track of her four-year-old daughter for no more than five minutes, she believed that her daughter was playing in the front yard with an older brother, and she took precautions to negate the risk of her daughter leaving the front yard and running into the road, and the evidence did not show that she knew of any tendency of her daughter's to leave the front yard and run across the street.