La Plata, MD – Romechia Marie Simms, 24 of Upper Marlboro (pictured, below) facing charges for child abuse first-degree, manslaughter and neglect of a minor child by a parent in the May 2015 death of her 3-year-old son on a swing set in La Plata, has had her trial postponed twice by snow events.
Jury selection will begin Monday, Feb. 22 in Charles County Circuit Court before Judge H. James West.
Simms is free on bond pending her trial, which had to be rescheduled from Jan. 25 after the snowstorm dumped more than a foot of snow throughout the region.
She is the mother of the 3-year-old boy who died in a Wills Park swing set in La Plata May 2015.
Charles County Assistant Public Defenders Allison Heldreth and Elizabeth Connell will defend Simms before Charles County Circuit Court Judge H. James West.
She is facing 45 years on the three counts.
Charles County State’s Attorney Tony Covington said back in September 2015 that Simms took her 3-year-old son to Wills Park prior to May 22, 2015, where the child remained in the swing for 40 hours.
When Charles County Sheriff’s Office deputies cut the child out of the swing, he was determined to have been dead for eight-to-10 hours.
There was water in the child’s shoes. The two stayed at the park for almost two days, during which a severe downpour drenched the region.
The trial is expected to take most of the week.
Contact Joseph Norris at joe.norris@thebaynet.com