Archive for Monday, December 19, 2011  Ottawa mother pleads no
contest to three charges related to accident leading to
son’s death  December 19, 2011   A 40-year-old Ottawa woman
pleaded no contest Monday in Franklin County to three
misdemeanor charges after her son was struck by a vehicle in
March and later died.  Tammy Lynn Payne entered the pleas Monday
morning to two counts of child endangerment and one count of DUI
with a prior conviction, also a misdemeanor, court administrator
John Steelman said.  Prosecutors charged Payne after Ottawa
police said her son Alex Bowles-Gregg died from his injuries
March 12 after he was struck by the family’s vehicle outside the
family’s home in the 1000 block of South Cottonwood Street.
Days after the accident, police said no one was driving the
vehicle when Bowles-Gregg was injured and the family had just
returned home. Officers also collected evidence to determine if
alcohol was a factor in the accident.  After her plea, Judge
Kevin Kimball found Payne guilty of the t