Last week, Mason Herring, 39, was sentenced to 180 days in jail after pleading guilty to injury of a child and assault of a pregnant woman. He had originally been charged with felony assault to induce abortion.
Herring, an attorney in Houston, repeatedly spiked his wife’s drinks with abortion drugs when she was seven months pregnant. The Associated Press reports:
Catherine Herring, who has filed for divorce, told the court the jail sentence was not long enough. She said their 1-year-old daughter, their third child, was born about 10 weeks premature, has developmental delays and attends therapy eight times a week.
“I do not believe that 180 days is justice for attempting to kill your child seven separate times,” Catherine Herring said.
According to the Daily Mail, “the lawyer’s repeated attempts to drug his wife in 2022 came after he embarked on an affair and told his wife he wanted to split up.”
Catherine Herring told the court that her husband worried that he’d “look like a jerk” if he abandoned his wife with their newborn. Now he looks like a monster. Ms. Herring is right — 180 days is far too short a sentence.