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Updated: Wednesday, 25 Apr 2012, 11:20 AM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 01 Feb 2011, 6:46 PM EST

myFOXdetroit.com Staff - TRENTON -- Jennifer Petkov pled guilty today of assault and battery, admitting that she tried to run down her neighbor Tana Boling.

Petkov became infamous last fall after she posted mean-spirited photos of Kathleen Edwards, a 7-year-old girl who is dying from Huntington's Disease, on her Facebook page.  ( VIEW ORGIINAL  VIDEO REPORT

The photos showed Edwards face as part of a skull and cross bones.  She says she did it to "burn Rebecca Rose's ass raw."  Rose is Edward's grandmother who lives on the same Trenton street as Boling and Petkov. 

She also posted a picture of the girl's mother, who died in 2009 of the same condition, in the arms of the grim reaper.

She later apologized for posting the photos, but public outcry turned into a rally of support for Edwards and a negative backlash against Petkov.

Today she was sentenced to 18 months probation on the following conditions:

  • Psychological evaluation with treatment if recommended by court probation workers.
  • Substance abuse evaluation with treatment if recommended. Attend anger management counseling.
  • Have no contact with next door neighbor Tana Boling, who filed the assault complaint.
  • Petkov isn't allowed within a five-block area of her old Trenton Neighborhood Street address.

Any violation of the terms of probation will result in the Petkov serving 93 days in the Wayne County Jail, according to the Wayne County prosecutors office.

 


 

 

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