Sara Mynatt charged after second baby dies

[cook45304]

Wow.. I just hope that Hippo doesn't get baby #3 back.

 

[Shezzy]

I just do not believe for one second that anyone could lay on top of a child and not know it. That's absurd.

 

[Sevens My Charm]

A mother who smothered two babies in her sleep in two separate incidents and lost a third to authorities avoided a jail term Thursday.

Sara McCurry, who also has been identified as Sara Mynatt, pleaded guilty Thursday in Knox County Criminal Court to reckless homicide in the October 2007 death of her 4-month-old son Jaden Jerman.

Assistant Public Defender Bob Edwards convinced Assistant District Attorney General Steve Sword that 27-year-old McCurry had suffered enough punishment for putting Jaden in her bed knowing that, just 20 months before, she had rolled over on her 11-day-old daughter and smothered her.

As part of a plea deal, Judge Richard Baumgartner sentenced McCurry to two years of probation.

Sword said McCurry smothered daughter Lily Mynatt in February 2006 by rolling over on the newborn in her sleep. That death was ruled accidental, and McCurry was warned of the dangers of allowing a baby to sleep with her in her bed, he said.

In October 2007, McCurry phoned 911 with a claim that baby Jaden had stopped breathing after being placed in a swing by her mother, Sword said. She later phoned authorities to confess that her mother had awakened her after discovering McCurry atop the baby in bed, he said.

"An autopsy showed the victim died from asphyxiation from smothering," Sword told the judge.

McCurry had a third baby, but that child was removed from her custody by the state Department of Children's Services, according to prior court testimony.

Records filed in the case indicate McCurry suffers a slew of mental health woes and a possible sleeping disorder.

Mother who smothered 2 babies in her sleep gets probation

A mother who smothered two babies in her sleep in two separate incidents and lost a third to authorities avoided a jail term Thursday.

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