A woman from Gresham, Oregon, aged 30, has been sentenced for criminal mistreatment after she subjected her baby to waterboarding and placed him in a freezer as a test to see if the baby’s father cared, according to PEOPLE. Sharday McDonald received a 30-day jail sentence and three years of probation for her convictions of criminal mistreatment, tampering with a witness, and identity theft.
In Oct. 2021, the Gresham Police responded to a report about a mother putting her baby in a freezer at an apartment located at 174th and Burnside. Upon their arrival, officers heard the woman yelling through the door, expressing her indifference towards the baby. McDonald, later identified as the woman, opened the door while holding the baby wrapped in a blanket.
The baby’s father arrived at the scene and presented a video call he had with McDonald. In the call, she was seen holding the baby by his onesie and waterboarding him. The officer noted in the reports that the baby appeared to be struggling to hold his breath as water poured onto his face and into his nose.
After her arrest, McDonald expressed remorse, stating that she did it to test the father’s concern for the baby. She believed that subjecting her baby to running water would prompt the father to return. McDonald clarified that she did not intend to harm or kill her son through drowning or freezing, but rather carried out the waterboarding as an act of spite.
She said, she wanted to see if the father
“gave a f–ck at all.”
According to court documents, a pediatrician reviewed the incident and confirmed that the child would have been unable to breathe properly while water was being poured into his nose. This action could have resulted in severe and life-threatening complications.
The current condition of the baby and whether he has been reunited with his father remain unclear based on the available court records.
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