A Downingtown lawyer was convicted Tuesday of defrauding her elderly father of $168,000, money she stole, prosecutors said, to pay personal expenses while acting as his power of attorney.
But her legal troubles are not over. Rohrman faces charges of drug delivery resulting in death and drug possession in her native Chester County for allegedly providing her husband, Emeka Nwadiora Jr., with heroin and filming him as he fatally overdosed. Over the course of three years, Rohrman had spent the money she stole from her father on personal expenses, including improvements to her home in Downingtown and thousands of dollars in credit card debt, according to the affidavit of probable cause for her arrest.
Rohrman had pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Nwadiora’s death in March, a negotiated deal that would’ve spared her from the more serious felony charges in the case. But Rohrman withdrew the plea at the last minute during her sentencing hearing in September, telling Chester County Court Judge Analisa Sondergaard that she hadn’t agreed on a prison term with prosecutors, who had asked the judge to sentence her to 1½ to 5 years.