{"id":238940,"date":"2026-07-09T01:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238940\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T01:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:47:26","slug":"kristen-gerrie-posts-50k-bond-child-endangerment-charge-upgraded-to-felony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238940\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristen Gerrie posts $50K bond; child endangerment charge upgraded to felony"},"content":{"rendered":"

OREGON, Ohio \u2014 The arraignment for a woman charged with child endangerment following a fatal Lake Erie boating incident has been continued to Tuesday morning after she posted bond. The charge was upgraded to a felony, and the Lucas County Sheriff’s Office said Monday afternoon that charges and a warrant are in the process of being filed. \u00a0<\/p>\n


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Kristen Gerrie<\/a>, 41, was scheduled to appear in Oregon Municipal Court on Monday afternoon. However, she posted a $50,000 surety bond, and her case was continued to Tuesday at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n

Gerrie faces a count of child endangerment following an incident that began Wednesday when she, 38-year-old Jonathan Ciha, and 11-year-old Angelique Cunningham went out on a boat.<\/p>\n

Ciha’s body was recovered<\/a>\u00a0Thursday morning in the water near Meinke Marina in Jerusalem Township, while Gerrie was able to swim ashore.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OREGON, Ohio \u2014 The arraignment for a woman charged with child endangerment following a fatal Lake Erie boating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-238940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}