Mom admits poisoning 2nd baby to get dad's attention

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2010-01-01 16:32

Story here. Excerpt:

'HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) -- A 25-year-old former medical assistant has pleaded guilty to poisoning her 2-month-old daughter with morphine in a bid to attract the attention of the child's father. She was on probation for a similar crime in California.

Sara Rose Dillard appeared in Washington County Circuit Court on Wednesday and admitted giving her daughter Elise a high dose of the opiate in June. Judge Mark Gardner sentenced Dillard to seven years in prison after she pleaded guilty to first-degree assault.

Authorities said Dillard, of Beaverton, was on probation from California for feeding her son, who was 10 months old at the time, two opiate pills.
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"She knew the baby would go into respiratory distress and bring a lot of attention to her and her baby because she'd put herself through respiratory distress before," prosecutor Megan Johnson said Wednesday.

Doctors at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center admitted the 2-month-old for observation in June although they couldn't detect the fever Dillard said she had. The next morning, the child was barely breathing. Her condition puzzled doctors until toxicology tests came back positive for opiates.'

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... the father is to blame. Had he been paying more attention to the mother and children (who are his sole and exclusive responsibility, the mother being incapable of prudent decision-making due to her naturally-weaker condition as a female), such a tragedy, yea, crime, would have been avoided. This is not unlike the behavior of the female common cement vole1 who will, lacking male protection and attention, be driven to kill her offspring should he choose to neglect them due to his desire to find other sources of food, mates, or get himself killed by a predator. In all such cases, likewise, it is his fault."

-- Dr. Jackass Nymphotrope, "On the Insufficiency of Natural Paternal Systems", Dingleberry Publishing, Boston, MA, 1845.

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1"common cement vole" - no such beast exists. I picked that one of my a**.

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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2010-01-01 22:19

That judge is in a lot of trouble with women's groups who believe she only needs counseling.

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Submitted by MR on Fri, 2010-01-01 22:45

But a man who was being sentenced for his SECOND poisoning of a child would receive life almost certainly. If by some miracle he did not receive life he would get a couple decades and in some states sex offender status on release even though no sexual acts were involved simply due to the tender age of the children and the gravity of the offense.

She got off easy by male standards pf punishment.

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Submitted by Paragon on Mon, 2010-01-04 18:47