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Court: Pa. molester who tracked sex abuse on calendar deserves lengthy term

<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; Though the woman accused of <a href="https://www.timesleader.com/news/local/660973/police-woman-struck-juvenile-in-the-face" target="_blank">violently shoving Presley Keeney outside a city convenience store</a> last month is headed to Luzerne County Court to face charges, the girl&#8217;s mother said some damage cannot be undone.</p><p>Marlenea Uravage, 29, waived a preliminary hearing Thursday and will now stand trial on charges of simple assault and disorderly conduct.</p><p>Uravage, of Wilkes-Barre, is accused of shoving 12-year-old Presley to the ground May 28. Keeney was standing outside the Quick Stop, across Route 309 from Home Depot, when a man reportedly approached and asked for something to eat from her bag of snacks.</p><p>Surveillance video from outside the store shows Uravage walking over to them both. She shoved the man away, then turned quickly and shoved Keeney, police say. Keeney was shoved so hard, her head almost struck the store&#8217;s door as she flew backward.</p><p>Store cameras also show Uravage running from the scene. She was picked up in Nanticoke several weeks later.</p><p>The girl was not injured other than a minor scrape on her hand.</p><p>But Keeney&#8217;s mother, Chere Fuller, 37, noted since the incident, her daughter is &#8220;afraid everywhere she goes.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just hoping that justice is served, that&#8217;s all,&#8221; Fuller said Thursday.</p><p>She had a simple message for the suspect.</p><p>&#8220;I just want her to know that I&#8217;m not going to let up,&#8221; she said. &#8220;What she did is wrong, and she has to pay for it.&#8221;</p><p>Uravage&#8217;s attorney, John Donovan from the Luzerne County Public Defender&#8217;s Office, argued for unsecured bail, but Assistant District Attorney Angela Sperrazza pointed out the defendant had to be <a href="https://www.timesleader.com/news/local/663470/warrant-issued-for-woman-accused-of-assaulting-12-year-old-girl" target="_blank">apprehended by U.S. Marshals</a>.</p><p>District Judge Thomas Malloy denied Donovan&#8217;s motion, keeping Uravage&#8217;s bail at $50,000 cash.</p><p>Uravage is scheduled for formal arraignment at 10 a.m. Aug. 31 at the Luzerne County Courthouse. She remains jailed at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility.</p><p>The incident, which went viral on social media when the surveillance footage was released, has had a lasting effect on Presley. She still has trouble sleeping by herself, and is afraid when she is around a lot of people in public, according to Fuller.</p><p>Fuller hopes her daughter would somehow heal from the ordeal.</p><p>&#8220;Even though she&#8217;s (Uravage) locked up, that doesn&#8217;t change, because she&#8217;s (Keeney) 12,&#8221; Fuller said. &#8220;She (Uravage) stole something from her that day, and she deserves to pay for it.&#8221;</p><style>
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Woman accused of shoving girl outside store headed to court