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Feb 1st, 2007
OKLAHOMA CITY - A woman who experts said has a rare mental disorder has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison after admitting she injected fecal matter into her infant daughter.
Sarena Sherrard, 31, pleaded guilty Tuesday to child abuse charges.
Two mental health care providers, who have cared for Sherrard since her arrest, testified she could not resist the urge to harm her daughter. They blamed a disorder known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy, in which parents create or exaggerate injury to a child to bring attention to themselves. The cause is unknown.
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Bass said he sentenced Sherrard to one year in prison for each of the 13 times the girl was hospitalized, plus 2½ years because the abuse lasted that long.
“Even though (the judge) agreed with our psychiatrist and psychologist that she had several mental disorders ... he just thought it was such a severe case that he elected for punishment as opposed to treatment,” defense attorney Irven Box said Wednesday.
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Sarena M. Sherrard
Housed: Mabel Bassett Correctional Center
Sentence Date: 01/30/2007
Offense: Child Abuse
Sentence: 15 years 6 months
Start Date: 03/08/2007
End Date: 07/25/2022
Probation: 14 years 6 months
Start Date: 07/25/2022
End Date: 01/29/2037
OKLAHOMA CITY - A woman who experts said has a rare mental disorder has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison after admitting she injected fecal matter into her infant daughter.
Sarena Sherrard, 31, pleaded guilty Tuesday to child abuse charges.
Two mental health care providers, who have cared for Sherrard since her arrest, testified she could not resist the urge to harm her daughter. They blamed a disorder known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy, in which parents create or exaggerate injury to a child to bring attention to themselves. The cause is unknown.
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Bass said he sentenced Sherrard to one year in prison for each of the 13 times the girl was hospitalized, plus 2½ years because the abuse lasted that long.
“Even though (the judge) agreed with our psychiatrist and psychologist that she had several mental disorders ... he just thought it was such a severe case that he elected for punishment as opposed to treatment,” defense attorney Irven Box said Wednesday.
BBM
More at link:
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/news/57013-woman-who-experts-said-has.html
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Sarena M. Sherrard
Housed: Mabel Bassett Correctional Center
Sentence Date: 01/30/2007
Offense: Child Abuse
Sentence: 15 years 6 months
Start Date: 03/08/2007
End Date: 07/25/2022
Probation: 14 years 6 months
Start Date: 07/25/2022
End Date: 01/29/2037
