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PARKERSBURG -- A motion for bond for a man accused of killing a 16-month-old boy was denied Monday in Wood County Circuit Court.
William Travis Schoonover, 40, in custody at the North Central Regional Jail in Doddridge County, is set to stand trial Feb. 25 on charges of murder and death of a child by a parent, guardian or custodian. He was arrested in August 2017, accused of killing his girlfriend's son after she left the child in his care. Court records show he told detectives he shook the child because the boy would not hold still while Schoonover was changing his diaper.
Monday's hearing was in response to a defense motion that bond be set for Schoonover, which the prosecution opposed because of the nature of the charges. Judge Robert Waters agreed and denied the motion.
Also Monday in Circuit Court:
* Ashley Nicole Fulkerson, 24, also in custody at the regional jail, was sentenced by Waters to two to 10 years in prison with credit for 317 days served after pleading guilty in November to charges of child neglect creating risk of injury and possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine, with intent to deliver. The defense had asked for Fulkerson to be placed on probation in Indiana, which was opposed by the state.
Fulkerson will also have to register with the abuse and neglect registry and be on supervised release for 10 years after her sentence is completed.
Fulkerson and another suspect, Jesse Carl Hesson, were arrested in February after being arrested at the Microtel Inn and Suites in Mineral Wells, with drugs, a handgun and more than $3,500 in cash confiscated from two rooms.
According to court records, in February, Fulkerson's toddler son suffered multiple injuries -- including two black eyes and multiple lacerations around his head -- which she and Hesson attributed to a dog attack. When suspicions were raised about the true cause, she reportedly left the hospital without having her son treated. Witnesses reported seeing Fulkerson and the Hesson pick the child up by the hair, push him to the ground and hit him with a kitchen spoon.
Hesson was sentenced in December to 26 to 34 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of robbery and possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and entering an Alford plea -- acknowledging there is enough evidence to convict without admitting guilt -- to a charge of child abuse resulting in injury.
* Joshua Lee Rogers, 31, also at the regional jail, was sentenced by Waters to one to 10 years in prison, with credit for 185 days served, after earlier pleading guilty to an information charging him with a felony count of destruction of property. He was also ordered to pay $1,562.27 in restitution to the North Fields Insurance Co.
Rogers was originally arrested on an arson charge in July after he reportedly set fire to a storage building behind the House to Home day shelter on Eighth Street in Parkersburg.
* William Harvey, 43, at the regional jail, received two one-to-five-year sentences from Waters, to be served concurrently, on a pair of possession of a controlled substance, meth, with intent to deliver charges. He received credit for 324 days served and was also ordered to pay $500 in restitution to the Parkersburg Violent Crime and Narcotics Task Force.
* William Heflin, 35, of Vienna, was granted an early release from his three-year probation term by Waters. The prosecution had no objection. He was originally sentenced to one to 15 years on a charge of delivery of a controlled substance, heroin. That sentence was suspended for the three years of probation.
* Juanita Joy Wolfe, 33, of Vienna, pleaded guilty before Judge J.D. Beane to a misdemeanor charge of obtaining fraudulent benefits, a lesser included offense to the felony obtaining fraudulent benefits charge on which she was indicted. According to court records, Wolfe was accused of improperly receiving $43,336.20 in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, School Clothing Allowance, Low Income Energy Assistance Program and Emergency Assistance funds or benefits. Sentencing was scheduled for 9 a.m. March 7.
* Joshua R. Wilson, 36, in custody at the regional jail, was placed back on parole by Beane after an agreement was reached for Wilson to be released to a treatment program in Huntington. He had served 30 days in jail after his parole was revoked. He had been sentenced in February to one to 15 years on a charge of possession of a controlled substance, heroin, with intent to deliver. That sentence was suspended, and Wilson was placed on home confinement.
* Eric W. Tennant, 25, at the regional jail, was sentenced by Beane to one to five years in prison, with credit for 156 days served after previously pleading guilty to receiving or transferring a stolen vehicle.