Posted on 07/01/2002 12:32:41 PM PDT by chance33_98
Texas Mom Gets 25 For Poisoning Attempt
Saturday an Austin jury deliberated for five hours before handing Sailaja Hathaway a 25 year prison sentence for attempting to poison her two young boys. Hathaway was convicted Wednesday of the crime. Friday her attorneys tried to persuade the jury into handing a light sentence, they tried to persuade jurors that Hathaway was psychotic when she made her two boys drink insecticide on Valentine's Day, 2001.
A psychological expert for Hathaway argued Hathaway's divorce was more than she could bear and that deep depression and psychosis led her to the attempted murder of her children and her own attempted suicide. Prosecutors countered that Hathaway couldn't have been all that dysfunctional since she was carrying an "A" average at Austin Community College around that time. Hathaway's separate ten and fifteen year sentences can be served at the same time. With good behavior she could be out of prison in about six years.
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