A Pasco mother who recently had her 2009 conviction for abusing her infant daughter overturned was back in court Tuesday to set a new trial date.
Olga Shved, 29, returned to Franklin County Superior Court where she faces a charge of first-degree assault of a child.
Her trial is set for Feb. 15.
Shved was found guilty by a jury in November 2009 of abusing her 4-month-old daughter, and she was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
She appealed her conviction on a number of issues, including saying the jury was mistakenly allowed to consider a theory in the assault case that was not charged.
In August, the Washington State Court of Appeals found the jury received improper instructions. The court reversed Shved's conviction and ordered the case back to Franklin County for a new trial.
Shved, who had been in custody at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Purdy, was brought back to the Franklin County jail Dec. 15.
Defense attorney Jim Egan asked for bail to be set at $5,000. He also said he has been working to get in touch with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Yakima to release the hold they have to keep Shved in custody.
Judge Craig Matheson agreed to the bail request.
Shved's daughter was born premature Feb. 4, 2006, and four months later paramedics were called to the family home when the baby started choking while being fed, court documents said.
The infant was taken to Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland, where a doctor found numerous scratches on her body and broken bones that were at least two weeks old on the girl's upper right arm, left thigh and on four ribs.
Two skull fractures -- one that happened in the previous few hours -- also were found, and a doctor noticed bruising on the infant's face had been covered up with makeup, documents said.
At the hospital, Shved initially denied knowing anything about the injuries but later suggested to police the injuries could have happened when she dropped the baby twice while bathing.
During the two-week trial, jurors heard two doctors testify that there was no possibility the injuries were accidental, documents said.
The defense tried to convince jurors that Shved's brother, who recently had been released from Eastern State Hospital and suffered from mental health problems, was responsible for the injuries.
The jury deliberated for about one day before finding Shved guilty of first-degree child assault.














