FAIRFIELD, California – Ina Aurelia Rogers, a Fairfield woman involved in a 2018 child abuse case, is facing four months of supervised release after spending nearly five years in “custody.” This comes after pleading no contest to 10 charges of child cruelty, her defense attorney revealed on Thursday.
Rogers was scheduled for a presentencing report and sentencing, but Solano County Superior Court Judge William J. Pendergast ordered her to return in January for formal sentencing. She was represented by attorney Barry K. Newman, while Deputy District Attorney William P. Moser handled the prosecution.
Her no-contest pleas meant she did not admit guilt but stated she would offer no defense. Rogers potentially faced up to six years in state prison and a $10,000 fine for a single felony charge alone.
The charges against Rogers stem from her arrest on April 3, 2018, along with her husband, Jonathan Allen, after their 12-year-old son disappeared and was later found, exposing the couple’s disturbing behavior. The investigation found their home in squalid, unsafe, and unsanitary living conditions, with nine other children living in hazardous conditions.
Allen pleaded no contest to 14 felony counts and was sentenced to 36 years 8 months in prison. The allegations against him included multiple counts of child torture, child cruelty, and lewd acts on a child, dating back to 2014.
Rogers has faced repeated rescheduling of her sentencing over the years and will now serve four months under supervised release, closing a troubling chapter in a profoundly disturbing case. She is set to return to court for formal sentencing in January.