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Ex-court clerk, husband sentenced in drug case
By Times staff writer DADE CITY -- A former Pasco County courthouse employee was placed on probation and her husband sentenced to prison Thursday for giving drugs to three teenage girls, wrapping up a 2-year-old case. Former courthouse clerk Michele Beth Szymborski was sentenced to two years of probation and will be allowed to see her two teenage daughters -- now living with relatives -- only if they ask to see her. Her husband, Kirk Spencer Szymborski, was sentenced to a 28-month prison term and was fingerprinted Thursday and led from the courtroom on his way to a state prison. The couple was arrested in June 2000 and accused of giving drugs to three 16-year-old girls. Michele Szymborski, 33, pleaded no contest last year to two counts of child abuse. As part of the plea arrangement, she would have been required to testify at her husband's trial, and her sentencing was withheld until after his case was resolved. Circuit Judge Wayne Cobb withheld a ruling of guilt Thursday and sentenced her to two years of probation. Kirk Szymborski, 33, pleaded guilty in October to two counts of providing marijuana to minors. His defense attorney, Bill Eble, said state sentencing guidelines allowed a lower sentence for the drug charges than on the abuse charges in his case. During the investigation, Kirk Szymborski had also been charged with tampering with a victim and lewd and lascivious molestation, but those charges later were dropped.
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