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Wife receives probation for failing to provide care for impaired Vietnam veteran

A woman received 12 months of probation after pleading guilty to a felony charge of failing to provide care for an impaired person in connection with the death of her husband in what police called “deplorable conditions” at their Onandago Trail home in Springfield Township, authorities said Wednesday.Dorothy Marie “Dottie” Matwiju, 57, pleaded guilty to the fourth-degree felony last week in Summit County Common Pleas Judge Lynne Callahan’s court.If she violates any terms of probation, she could face a sentence of 12 months in prison, court officials said.Her husband of 14 years, Vietnam veteran David Lee Matwiju, 64, was unresponsive and found sitting in a chair in a soiled diaper June 3 after paramedics were called to the home about 8 p.m.

 

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