HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) -- A 25-year-old former medical assistant has pleaded guilty to poisoning her 2-month-old daughter with morphine in a bid to attract the attention of the child's father. She was on probation for a similar crime in California.
Sara Rose Dillard appeared in Washington County Circuit Court on Wednesday and admitted giving her daughter Elise a high dose of the opiate in June. Judge Mark Gardner sentenced Dillard to seven years in prison after she pleaded guilty to first-degree assault.
Authorities said Dillard, of Beaverton, was on probation from California for feeding her son, who was 10 months old at the time, two opiate pills.
Both children survived.
Sgt. David Thompson of the Washington County sheriff's office has said in both cases the woman was trying to attract the attention of the child's father -- a different man in each case.
Dillard told the court she loves her daughter and "I deeply regret harm has come to her." The little girl is in the custody of the Oregon Department of Human Services. Dillard's former husband has custody of the little boy in the Los Angeles case.
"She knew the baby would go into respiratory distress and bring a lot of attention to her and her baby because she'd put herself through respiratory distress before," prosecutor Megan Johnson said Wednesday.
Doctors at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center admitted the 2-month-old for observation in June although they couldn't detect the fever Dillard said she had. The next morning, the child was barely breathing. Her condition puzzled doctors until toxicology tests came back positive for opiates.
Dillard told the hospital she was on a pain killer and the opiates must have come through her breast milk, Thompson said. However, lab tests of her bottled milk turned up a high level of morphine, indicating the drug had been added to it after pumping.
The woman also admitted putting a morphine pill on Elise's tongue while they were at the hospital, Johnson said.

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god what are we doing to the women in this country .

yeah,, hasnt the field of psychology gotten to this trend yet,,? I think they have called it 'munchhausens syndrome' or some such thing...

Lock her up.
Save the child!

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and the husband or boy friend to. don't tell me she got that way by her self . you need to treat your women as a mate not as a burden on your time . if she asn;t giveing it to him he'd have to go back to his boy friend .

Why in the BLUE HELL was she allowed to even HAVE another child???

I swear. Some people just need to be sterilized and NEVER allowed to breed.