Update: Rood stays in jail after petition fails

Jazzmyn Rood ... fighting for her release (Courtesy Union Leader)

ROCHESTER - Jazzmyn Rood's petition to force her acceptance into the Strafford County Community Corrections bail program which would have led to her release from jail has been struck down by a Superior Court judge.

The 41-year mother charged in the drug overdose death of her 17-year-old daughter in October remains today in Strafford County Jail on $10,000 cash bail.

The decision was handed down late Friday.

Strafford County Community Corrections Bail Program indicated they could not approve her release on personal recognizance for a number of reasons.

Rood, of Rochester, stands charged with endangering the welfare of a child, reckless conduct and conspiracy to possess a controlled drug in connection with the death of her daughter, Eve Tarmey, on Oct. 17.

Tarmey, a Spaulding High School senior, died of acute fentanyl poisoning at the Riviera Motel in Rochester where she was sharing a room with her mother and her mother's boyfriend, Mark Ross, 41.

Rood's public defender urged for the switch to personal recognizance at a hearing last month during which prosecutor Tim Sullivan argued against it, saying Rood was likely to slip back into her heroin addiction if released and presented a danger to herself and the community.

Judge Steven Houran ordered that Rood's bail be converted to personal recognizance paving the way for her release, but only if she was accepted into the program offered by Strafford County Community Corrections, which would have also called for a GPS bracelet and no-contact orders with Tarmey's father and her two co-defendants.

Leslie Aberle of Salisbury, Mass., has also been charged in the case.