(Breaking news) Bowman sentencing continued

Woman charged with child abuse in Calvert, murder of children in Montgomery

Friday, Dec. 11, 2009

Posted at 11:17 a.m. Friday

The sentencing for Renee Bowman of Lusby, who plead guilty to first-degree child abuse in September, has been postponed until Jan. 8 of next year. It was originally scheduled for today at 10 a.m. at the Calvert County Circuit Court in Prince Frederick.

Bowman, 44, was indicted in October 2008 after neighbors found her adopted daughter, then 7, wandering the streets nearby Bowman's home covered in bruises and wearing a blood-soaked shirt.

Bowman is also facing two counts of murder and first-degree child abuse in Montgomery County with regards to the deaths of her other two adopted daughters, whose bodies were found in a basement freezer after authorities searched her house in Lusby.

Police determined the girls died while the family was living in Montgomery County.

Bowman is currently jailed in Montgomery County.

A motion for a continuance of the sentencing was filed on Dec. 7 and granted the next day.

jnewman@somdnews.com