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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; A Luzerne caregiver charged with stealing more than $200,000 from a 98-year-old woman decided to plead guilty Tuesday, but not before again flirting with an alternate option.</p><p>Sharon Mae Jacobosky, 73, of Carpenter Street, was ordered by Luzerne County Judge Joseph Sklarosky Jr. to appear in court Tuesday morning with a decision about whether she planned to take her theft charge to trial or enter a plea.</p><p>Jocobosky, whom prosecutors say stole $208,538 from Dallas resident Clementine Moseman between 2009 and 2011, previously <a href="https://www.timesleader.com/news/510771/caregiver-found-guilty-of-stealing-over-250k-from-98-year-old-dallas-woman" target="_blank">pleaded guilty to the charge in February</a> but the plea was vacated after she suggested she was pressured into accepting it.</p><p>The elderly caregiver <a href="https://www.timesleader.com/news/586146/judge-orders-decision-from-flip-flopping-caregiver-charged-in-258k-theft-case" target="_blank">indicated in court Monday she wanted to have a bench trial, but quickly changed her mind</a> when Sklarosky told her he would recuse himself and another judge would preside. After a conference with her attorney, Stephen Geist, Jacobosky returned to the courtroom and said she wanted to enter a plea, but asked for more time to mull the decision.</p><p>A visibly irked Sklarosky told her to report to court Tuesday with a decision.</p><p>After prosecutors read her charges into the record, Geist told the judge Jacobosky wanted to plea no contest to the charge. She entered the guilty plea after a brief conference with Geist.</p><p>Sklarosky accepted her plea on a single count of theft by failure to make proper disposition of funds.</p><p>A restitution hearing is scheduled for Oct. 20.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Joe Dolinsky</p><p>jdolinsky@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Joe Dolinsky at 570-991-6110 or on Twitter @JoeDolinskyTL</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Elderly Luzerne caregiver pleads guilty to stealing 98-year-old woman’s funds