Senior Judge Steve Jaeger found a woman accused of marrying an older man to steal his $1 million guilty Tuesday of three counts of knowingly exploiting an adult.Cathleen Kenter-Nevins faces up to 10 years on each count when Jaeger sentences her April 15 in Boone Circuit Court. Kenter-Nevins, free on bond, declined to speak with a reporter as she left the courthouse.
Boone Commonwealth’s Attorney Linda Tally Smith accused Kenter-Nevins of befriending Danny Nevins four years ago at a riverboat casino in a plot to marry him so she could gain access to $1 million in commercial real estate he owned.
Nevins died in March 2008 at the age of 66 of natural causes.
Smith said at trial that the case was an example of a woman taking advantage of an elderly disabled man who had suffered from mental illnesses his entire life. Before getting married in the back seat of a car in Tennessee, Nevins had been involuntarily committed in a psychiatric hospital, been diagnosed as bipolar and lived with his mother until she died in the 1980s.
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Kenter-Nevins Guilty of Exploiting Man
I certainly do not condone this intent but must wonder... if the court had a guardian or fiduciary involved and they all had lawyers... would the outcome have been the same? I think not!
ReplyDeleteIf a fiducairy was involved and a gang of lawyers, the exploitation would have been much greater!
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