MARION COUNTY, Fla. – Charges have been dropped against a former employee of a Marion County day care who was fired following her arrest on accusations of child abuse, records show.
State prosecutors on Thursday filed an announcement of “no information” in the case of Karla Loenie Gonzalez Penalverty, who was arrested in July to face eight counts of child abuse without great bodily harm and one count of resisting arrest without violence.
“From the beginning, our position has been that Ms. Gonzalez Penalverty was innocent of any criminal wrongdoing,” Penalverty’s attorney, Nick Congelossi, Esq., said in a statement. “We appreciate the State Attorney’s Office for its careful review of the facts and its decision to dismiss the case. This outcome fully exonerates my client.”
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