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Saturday 30 January 2016

Woman Gets 6 Months in Jail For Beating 5 Year Old


Krysta A. McBride, 25, was charged May with two counts of child endangering, after beating her stepson in March. McBride pleaded not guilty in June and changed her plea to no contest in December.

At the time of the offense, the child’s father, McBride’s husband, was in a different part of the house when she beat the child with a belt, according to Medina County Prosecutor Dean Holman.


“The child was needlessly beaten with a belt on the back and covered with bruises,” Holman said. “The child has fully recovered physically, and is undergoing counseling.”

Assistant Prosecutor Michael McNamara asked Medina County Common Pleas Judge Joyce V. Kimbler to sentence McBride to prison.

“The child’s injuries are the worst I’ve ever seen without broken bones,” he said. “It appears there is certainly an anger issue.”

McBride’s attorney, David McArtor, of Medina, said in court that McBride’s “significant psychological issues,” which he said stem from her being assaulted earlier in her life, played a role in her abuse of her stepson.

“She cannot believe that she has become what she’s hated most, and for that she hates herself,” McArtor said.

McBride called her actions “unforgivable.”

“I did something that no parent should ever do,” she said. “For me, that’s unforgivable. I don’t deserve to be alive anymore.”

Kimbler disagreed.“Nothing is unforgivable,” she said to McBride.

McArtor said McBride has been in an intensive parenting intervention program and also receives psychological treatment.

“Since the moment she changed her plea, she’s been a different person,” he said.


After her jail time, McBride will have three years of probation and will have to continue her psychological treatment and will be on a drug monitoring program. She is also to have no contact with either of her two stepchildren through her probation period.

credit:medinagazette

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