Ocala, Florida woman accused of child neglect; sister convicted of manslaughter

The sister of the woman found guilty of manslaughter in AJ Owens' death has been arrested and charged with neglecting her nine-year-old child.

Ellyn D. Lorincz was charged with child neglect without serious bodily harm. She was taken into custody on August 23 and transported to the Marion County Jail for booking. The 56-year-old Ocala woman was released early Sunday morning after posting $1,000 bail.

Her sister, 60-year-old Susan Louise Lorincz, was found guilty in the death of 35-year-old Ajike “AJ” Shantrell Owens at trial earlier this month.

Susan Lorincz fired a shot through her closed, locked front door on June 2, 2023, killing the single mother of four who was standing outside the door. The jury found Lorincz guilty of manslaughter with a firearm and she will be sentenced later this year. She could receive up to 30 years in prison.

During the week-long trial, Ellyn Lorincz was a key pillar in the courtroom, sitting behind the defense and the only supporter of her sister present.

Susan Lorincz was represented by the Public Defender's Office. Ellyn Lorincz will do so as well.

According to Ocala Police Officer Jace Allanson's report, officers were called to Ellyn Lorincz's home seven times from late October 2023 to August 20, 2024 because her child was having severe behavioral problems.

According to arrest reports, officers heard Ellyn Lorincz verbally abusing her child and saying she wanted to “give up her parental rights.” At one point, she reportedly locked the boy out of her apartment for hours.

According to the police report, Allanson was called to a location on August 20, where he arrived at 9:15 p.m. The boy was running toward his oncoming vehicle. Ellyn Lorincz told the officer her son had been running in and out of the house continuously since 4 p.m. Lorincz said a neighbor told her her son had been involved in an altercation with another child and had damaged property.

Lorincz said she had been reading a book that evening and was already asleep when the neighbor pointed out her son.

Lorincz said she had not given her son his medication, which helps him sleep, because she was sleeping. Inside the house, the officer found cockroaches, medications and needles that were accessible to the boy. According to the report, the officer smelled a strong odor of cat feces and ammonia.

Allanson documented additional encounters he and other officers had while dealing with Ellyn Lorincz.

For example, on August 14, there was a report that Lorincz's son allegedly hit his mother in the head with a bicycle helmet. Lorincz told Allanson, who was taking the report, that she did not want that “curse word” in her home. She told Allanson that officials could punish her son under the Baker Act or take him to jail “so she doesn't have to deal with him,” the report said.

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Another example was in May when Allanson went to Lorincz's apartment. She told officers she did not want her son at her home. A neighbor told officers the boy had been outside since 7 a.m.

The report states that officers went to Lorincz's apartment at 7:50 p.m. The boy said he only ate ravioli and did not go to school. Lorincz did not give a reason why her son did not go to school.

Months earlier, in February, Lorincz had told an officer that her son had not allowed her to give him his medication. A week before that report, police officers said, they had gone to a laundromat because of a report of an intoxicated woman and boy. When officers arrived, Lorincz told them she had taken painkillers for a foot injury. She said she was frustrated because of her son and also because she had to walk a mile from her home to the laundromat.

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Lorincz was arrested on Aug. 23 because of her pattern of behavior, the report said. Officials with the U.S. Department of Children and Families told Lorincz that she could be charged if she did not care for her child, the report said.

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On Tuesday, District Judge Ann Melinda Craggs presided over a detention hearing for Lorincz's 9-year-old child at the Marion County Judicial Center.

With the help of a cane, Lorincz, who walked with a limp, sat at the defense table. Lorincz's attorney from the Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel and a DCF attorney joined the hearing via Zoom.

Lorincz told the court she was unemployed, had no savings and drove an older model car. The judge was told that after Lorincz's arrest, DCF officers were unable to find anyone to take Lorincz's son. Lorincz told the judge she had no family or friends who could take her son.

Lorincz told the court that her son takes various medications for various conditions such as ADHD and ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder). She said her son is autistic, studies at the ESE school, is blind without glasses and can hardly sleep at night without medication.

Lorincz currently attends supervised visits with her son four times a month for one hour each.

At the end of the hearing, Lorincz told a Star-Banner reporter that her child was hitting her and yet the authorities were making her out to be a monster.

Contact Austin L. Miller at [email protected]

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