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WHIZ News Home > Local News > Zanesville Man Sentenced to 70 Years in Prison for the Torture of Children Zanesville Man Sentenced to 70 Years in Prison for the Torture of Children The Muskingum County Prosecutor’s Office says a Zanesville man was sentenced Monday to at least 70 years in prison for the mental and physical abuse of children for nearly 6 months. 39-year-old Elijah Waltz went before Common Pleas Judge Mark Fleegle and was given a minimum of 70 years and a maximum of 75-and-a-half year sentence. Zanesville Police Detective Phil Michel says a 10-year-old girl and an 11-year-old...

In court, Muskingum County Assistant Prosecutor John Litle commended the teacher who recognized signs of abuse in the 11-year-old boy and his 10-year-old sister. The suspected abuse was reported to Muskingum County Adult and Child Protective Services on Sept. 30 after the kids appeared online for school with their heads shaved bald. That same day, prosecutors said the computer camera turned off twice, one of the times the boy returned holding his mouth as if in pain and without speaking. Once the children were placed into foster care, the details of what had happened at the hands of two adu...

ZANESVILLE — A husband and wife from Somerset have been sentenced to prison for their part in a plan to rob and murder four drug dealers in Zanesville. Judge Mark Fleegle in Muskingum County sentenced 42 year-old Michael Siegenthal to 10 years in prison and his 49 year-old wife, Tami Siegenthal, to 16 to 18-1/2 years. Assistant Prosecutor John Litle explained why Tami Siegenthal received the stiffer sentence. “She is the most responsible person in this conspiracy and she minimizes and does not take responsibility for her acts,” he said. The Siegenthals and Tami Siegenthal’...

What does it mean to be grateful? At its root, it’s a dual action, a combination of appreciating the good things in life and recognizing that someone else is responsible for them. This year has provided no shortage of things to decry. There’s no need to list them here, but for evidence of the year’s negative impacts on the American psyche, see the spiking anxiety depression rates around the country. Suicide, too, has become an even greater concern - the pandemic and its economic fallout in particular have pushed many to the brink and beyond. But getting back to gratitude, researchers ar...

Dec 28, 2020 Muskingum County Court Judge Mark Fleegle might want to take another look at his own judgment, after Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor was forced to remove him from two cases because of his careless attitude toward coronavirus prevention measures. One would be hard pressed to find a Buckeye State resident who does not understand we are under a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew, a statewide mask-wearing mandate and restrictions on gatherings of more than 10 people. But according to a complaint filed by a defense attorney, in Fleegle’s little corner of the judicial branc...