Wednesday, October 29, 2025
  • Terms and conditions
  • Disclaimer
  • DMCA Policy
  • Cookie Policy
RHS News
  • U.S. News
  • Washington News
    • Kennewick News
    • Seattle News
    • Spokane News
    • Tacoma News
    • Vancouver News
    • Yakima News
  • Politics
  • Sports
  • Weather
  • Finance
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
RHS News
Home Crime

Pennsylvania Judge Refuses Relief For Woman Convicted In Torture And Killing Of 12-year-old Boy

by Paige Wuthrich
August 29, 2025
in Crime
Pennsylvania Judge Refuses Relief For Woman Convicted In Torture And Killing Of 12-year-old Boy

A Lebanon County judge dismissed Kimberly Maurer’s plea for post-conviction relief, upholding her life sentence plus 10 to 20 years for the brutal abuse and killing of 12-year-old Maxwell Schollenberger in 2020.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced the decision on August 26, noting that the Office of Attorney General successfully claimed Maurer obtained fair representation during her 2022 trial and that the verdict was supported by overwhelming evidence.

Related posts

This Article Includes

    • 0.1 Related posts
    • 0.2 Mesa Teacher Sentenced To 187 Years In Prison For Crimes Against Students
    • 0.3 13 Arrested in Florida Multi-Agency Child Exploitation Sting, ‘Operation Twelve Parsecs’
  • 1 Conviction and Sentencing
  • 2 Judge Condemns Attempt to Avoid Accountability
  • 3 Details of the Crime
  • 4 Prosecution of the Case
Mesa Teacher Sentenced To 187 Years In Prison For Crimes Against Students

Mesa Teacher Sentenced To 187 Years In Prison For Crimes Against Students

October 29, 2025
13 Arrested in Florida Multi-Agency Child Exploitation Sting, ‘Operation Twelve Parsecs’

13 Arrested in Florida Multi-Agency Child Exploitation Sting, ‘Operation Twelve Parsecs’

October 29, 2025

Conviction and Sentencing

Maurer and her husband, Scott Schollenberger, were found guilty of subjecting Maxwell to long-term abuse and neglect. Prosecutors described how the pair shut the youngster away, cut him off from the outside world, and subjected him to severe deprivation and maltreatment.

Maurer’s 2022 conviction resulted in a life sentence without parole, plus an extra 10 to 20 years. The boy’s father, Schollenberger, is also serving a life term.

Judge Condemns Attempt to Avoid Accountability

The Post-Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) application was filed after Maurer’s last appeal to the Pennsylvania Superior Court was refused. Lebanon County Common Pleas Judge Bradford Charles, who heard the PCRA motion, delivered a severely worded judgment denying Maurer’s arguments.

Judge Charles deemed the request “offensive,” describing it as Maurer’s “latest attempt to avoid responsibility for her heinous deed.”

Attorney General Sunday praised the ruling, stating: “The acts in this case are so cruel and depraved that they are difficult to believe. Our office argued, and the presiding judge agreed, that this motion for relief was the defendant’s latest attempt to avoid accountability for the deliberate and intentional torture and killing of a pre-teenage child. Our criminal justice system worked just as it should in this case, and the defendant appropriately will spend the rest of her life in a prison cell.”

Details of the Crime

In May 2020, authorities discovered Maxwell’s body inside the family’s Annville Township house. Investigators discovered that the youngster had been locked inside a gloomy room with its windows sealed to block sunlight.

Maxwell weighed only 47 pounds when he died, was very malnourished, and had sustained brain injuries. A forensic pathologist deemed his death a homicide, the result of blunt force head injuries exacerbated by malnutrition and neglect.

Prosecution of the Case

The Office of the Attorney General prosecuted Maurer’s original trial and represented the Commonwealth in the PCRA hearings. Senior Deputy Attorney General Christopher Schmidt argued the most recent motion, successfully defending the trial’s outcome.

With this decision, Maurer’s conviction and sentence stand, ensuring that she will serve the remainder of her life in jail for her role in one of Lebanon County’s most terrible child abuse cases.

ShareTweetPin
Previous Post

Texas Man Sentenced To Prison For Buying Guns For Cartel

Next Post

Thinking of Buying a Home? This One Number (6.78%) Will Decide Your Future

Paige Wuthrich

Paige Wuthrich

Related Posts

Mesa Teacher Sentenced To 187 Years In Prison For Crimes Against Students
Crime

Mesa Teacher Sentenced To 187 Years In Prison For Crimes Against Students

October 29, 2025
13 Arrested in Florida Multi-Agency Child Exploitation Sting, ‘Operation Twelve Parsecs’
Crime

13 Arrested in Florida Multi-Agency Child Exploitation Sting, ‘Operation Twelve Parsecs’

October 29, 2025
16 People Arrested in Citrus County ‘Operation Boogeyman’ Targeting Online Child Predators
Crime

16 People Arrested in Citrus County ‘Operation Boogeyman’ Targeting Online Child Predators

October 29, 2025
West Tennessee Task Force Cracks Down On Drug Trafficking, Violent Crime
Crime

West Tennessee Task Force Cracks Down On Drug Trafficking, Violent Crime

October 29, 2025
Paroled Friday, Apprehended Saturday For Burglarizing North Side Home
Crime

Paroled Friday, Apprehended Saturday For Burglarizing North Side Home

October 29, 2025
Suburban Chicago Woman Charged In Fatal Interstate 57 Hit-and-run Crash
Crime

Suburban Chicago Woman Charged In Fatal Interstate 57 Hit-and-run Crash

October 29, 2025
Next Post
Thinking of Buying a Home? This One Number (6.78%) Will Decide Your Future.

Thinking of Buying a Home? This One Number (6.78%) Will Decide Your Future

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

BROWSE BY CATEGORIES

  • Accident
  • Crime
  • Finance
  • Kennewick News
  • Missing Person
  • Politics
  • Tacoma News
  • U.S. News
  • Washington News
  • Weather

Recent News

  • Mesa Teacher Sentenced To 187 Years In Prison For Crimes Against Students
  • Thunderstorms Packing Hail, Pounding Rain And Powerful Winds Roll Across Region
  • 13 Arrested in Florida Multi-Agency Child Exploitation Sting, ‘Operation Twelve Parsecs’
  • 16 People Arrested in Citrus County ‘Operation Boogeyman’ Targeting Online Child Predators
  • West Tennessee Task Force Cracks Down On Drug Trafficking, Violent Crime

Category

  • Accident
  • Crime
  • Finance
  • Kennewick News
  • Missing Person
  • Politics
  • Tacoma News
  • U.S. News
  • Washington News
  • Weather

Important Pages

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Cookie Policy
  • Disclaimer
  • DMCA Policy
  • Editorial Policy
  • Fact-Checking Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and conditions
No Result
View All Result
  • U.S. News
  • Washington News
    • Kennewick News
    • Seattle News
    • Spokane News
    • Tacoma News
    • Vancouver News
    • Yakima News
  • Politics
  • Sports
  • Weather
  • Finance
  • Contact Us

© 2025 RhsNews.Co

Go to mobile version