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Deputies say daughter hit mother with car
By SHANNON COLAVECCHIO-VAN SICKLER
Published August 11, 2005
TAMPA - Nearly eight years ago, Robbie Jean Rogers was sentenced to prison after she ran over a bicyclist and left him dying in a ditch as she fled - still intoxicated - to a friend's house.
Rogers was 32 at the time of her conviction for DUI manslaughter and leaving the scene of a fatal crash. Daughter Amanda was just a teenager.
Wednesday, Rogers' daughter was the one behind bars - accused of trying to run her mother down with a 1996 Toyota Corolla.
Hillsborough sheriff's deputies arrested Amanda Rogers, now 23, about 3 a.m. Wednesday on one count of attempted first-degree murder, a felony punishable by up to 30 years in prison.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said the mother and daughter got into an argument shortly after 2 a.m. as Amanda Rogers drove the Corolla near their home, 10832 Bryan Road, outside Mango.
"She told her mother to get out of the car and walk home," Carter said. "The argument escalated."
Witnesses told investigators they saw Rogers try to hit her mother several times with the car, driving up and down the road erratically as she swerved to hit her target.
Rogers missed all but once, ultimately breaking her mother's ankle, Carter said. Robbie Rogers was treated at South Florida Baptist Hospital in Plant City.
Deputies arrested Amanda Rogers at Bryan Road and Williams Road. It was not her first arrest. She pleaded guilty in 2003 to two counts of battery on Tampa police officers and one count of trespassing in an occupied structure, county court records show. She was sentenced to four years of probation.
Hillsborough sheriff's deputies arrested Rogers last August for violating the probation, according to county court records. She was released from the county jail nearly five months later and credited with time served.
Her mother served 21/2 years in prison for the crash that killed bicyclist Henry Otto Snowden of Tampa. She was released in April 2001. Her probation is scheduled to end in 2008, state records show.
Times researcher Cathy Wos contributed to this report.
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