T-L Photo/KAY SEDGMER AFTER LEARNING that she will spend at least the next 16 years of her life in prison, Martha Roseberry is escorted out of the Belmont County Common Pleas Courtroom by a sheriff’s deputy. Judge John M. Solovan sentenced the woman after she entered guilty pleas on a first degree felony count of complicity to rape and a felony two charge of pandering sexual oriented materials to a minor. Her husband, 47-year-old Charles Roseberry was sentenced to life in prison in the fall of last year by Judge Jennifer Sargus on two counts of rape of a child under the age of 13.

ST. CLAIRSVILLE – After pleading guilty to charges stemming from a case that sent her husband to prison for life, 31-year-old Martha Roseberry was sentenced Friday morning to a similar fate. Roseberry and her husband Charles, 47, both residents of 54860 Winding Hill, Bellaire, were arrested in July 2009. Charles’ daughter, Kimberly Roseberry, 20, was also arrested at that time. The arrests were made following an investigation by the Belmont County Sheriff’s Office, the county Department of Job and Family and the county Prosecutor’s Office. Charles pleaded guilty to two counts of rape of a child under the age of 13 and was sentenced to life in prison. His daughter pleaded guilty to one count of attempted rape. Martha, who has been held in jail without bond for the past seven months, entered a guilty plea to two counts in the case through her attorney Frank Pierce.