By Allison Manning
The Columbus Dispatch
DELAWARE, Ohio — A Delaware County deputy has been fired from her third law-enforcement job in five years.
Janine Senanayake had been in training or called off sick from her job as a road deputy nearly every day since April 9.
Senanayake was fired in a letter from acting Sheriff Scott Vance. She also was issued a one-day suspension yesterday for failing to show up at two hearings in Delaware Municipal Court in February. She had a pending administrative investigation against her from Feb. 27, apparently for missing court.
It was the third investigation opened against her since she was hired in 2010 as a corrections officer by then-Sheriff Walter L. Davis III.
Senanayake was a probationary employee and was not represented by any union, a sheriff’s office spokeswoman said.
Senanayake was fired in Perry Township in 2009 after she was caught on an in-cruiser camera kissing and fondling township Police Chief Timothy Escola as they drove a prisoner from Cincinnati back to Stark County in northeastern Ohio. Her name then was Janine England — she was married to a Medina County deputy — and she had held her part-time police officer job for less than four months. Escola also was fired.
Senanayake was fired in 2007 from the Montville Township Police Department in Medina County after less than a year because of numerous issues, including the arrest of the wrong person on a traffic stop.
She filed a $250,000 lawsuit against Montville Township and the police chief, but she later withdrew it.
Both terminations were included in Senanayake’s background investigation before she was hired in Delaware County.
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