Columbiana County Recorder Theresa Bosel was sentenced Tuesday in connection to a traffic death in Beaver Township.

Bosel previously pleaded no contest today to a charge of vehicular manslaughter.

She's sentenced to 30 days house arrest, 120 hours of community service, 1 year probation and a $150 dollar fine. The state recommended a 90 day jail sentence.

Her license will also be suspended for two years.

In 2019 Bosel was involved in an incident that claimed the life of 69-year-old Cecil Chamberlain of California while he was traveling along Western Reserve Road. He was in town for a class reunion at Salem High School.

"I think about Mr. Chamberlain every single day of my life," Bosel said to his widow and daughter Tuesday. "I was sure this was not my fault...we sent the black boxes to my brother and he called me and said 'Terese, this was your fault, you went left of center'."

Bosel explained that her bouts of seizures were to blame, not the medication to treat them.

"I'm not trying to make an excuse," she said. "I'm trying to make you understand that I was trying to do everything I could, I spent thousands, they couldn't figure out what was going on...I would never drive under the influence."

The judge said without a conviction or probable cause for OVI or other crime, the family will likely never truly know what happened.