All but one of the women charged in connection with Paige Raque’s five-story fall have pleaded guilty. The women were sentenced to one year probation and ordered to serve three days of community service and pay fines for the alcohol they supplied to the party where Raque was injured.
The women were charged with furnishing in alcohol to minors in January, about three months after Raque, a Penn State cheerleader, fell 39 feet from a fifth-story window at Calder Commons, 520 E. Calder Way on Oct. 13.
Megan Markovitz, Tempest Hourston, Alexandra Hipple, Brooke Piccione, Alyssa Duffy, Julie Hannan and Madeline Miller each waived their preliminary hearings and entered into a plea deal with the Centre County District Attorneys office so some of their charges would be dropped.
Adaire Robinson has not pleaded. According to court documents, Robinson has a pre-trial conference scheduled for July 18. Her attorney, Alexander Lindsay, said he cannot discuss any details about Robinson’s upcoming court date.
The women were not eligible for the Accelerated Rehabilitation Program, or ARD, which is a program that allows first-time offenders to have their record cleared.
When Raque fell from the fifth story window, she sustained a severe brain injury and broke her pelvis. She was flown to the trauma center of Altoona Regional Health System before being moved out of the intensive care unit to a rehabilitation center in her hometown of Louisville, Ky.
In October, police filed for and executed a search warrant to obtain Raque’s medical records from Mount Nittany Medical Center to determine whether alcohol was a factor in her fall, and police said she would not be charged in connection to the incident.
Raque said in December she had plans to return to Penn State.
