Rose Home Owner Enters Plea Agreement on Criminal Charges After Appeals Court Rules in Civil Case
Featured Stories, News Monday, October 8th, 2012
Photo of Rose Rodriguez courtesy of Brazos County’s Judicial Records Search at: http://justiceweb.co.brazos.tx.us
The Bryan woman who once operated the Rose Home for the elderly and disabled will stay in jail. 47 year old Rose Rodriguez pleaded guilty Monday to perjury and theft charges, including selling homes that did not belong to her. Brazos County District Attorney-Elect Jarvis Parsons says as part of a plea agreement, she was sentenced to four years for the perjury and theft by deception convictions and nine months for the remaining felony thefts. Parsons says how long Rodriguez stays in prison will be up to the Texas parole board. Once she is released, she is on ten years probation from a four year prison sentence. Among the conditions is paying restitution of $76,050.
Jarvis Parsons visits with WTAW’s Bill Oliver.
The criminal case is in addition to a civil lawsuit where Rodriguez and her husband were found responsible for the death of a patient. The state court of appeals in Waco last week upheld they were negligent, but struck down the original award of $750,000 dollars and ordered the local court to rehear the penalty phase.
Click HERE to read the opinion from the Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District, in the civil case.
Short URL: http://wtaw.com/?p=49445
Posted by Bill Oliver
on Oct 8 2012. Filed under Featured Stories, News.
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No amount of prison time or money can make up for the evil Rose has done to the elderly, the immaginary resale shop victims, the unpaid workers, the victims of the home sales, or the families of the patients! Her sentence was much too light, life in an unlicensed, unregulated “personal care home” where she could be starved and mistreated might have been a more fair sentence