The US court increases the penalty for a woman who tortured a child and injected her with polluting substances
The US judiciary has extended a prison sentence for a woman who deliberately injected a child with polluting substances, after her lawyer tried to file a grievance to reduce the sentence.
Elizabeth Farager, 43, will face another three years behind bars after appeals court judges extended her prison sentence.
Fragra pleaded guilty to one count of cruelty and causing harm, as well as five other counts, including intentionally administering a poison or harmful substance, and was then sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison in a trial at Preston Crown Court.
However, her sentence was declared "unduly lenient" at the October 21 appeals court hearing and was raised to eight years after being referred by the attorney general's office.
Nicholas Hearn of the attorney general's office told the judges that the original ruling "does not reflect the cumulative seriousness of the crimes."
The court said, according to the Daily Sar newspaper, that Frager had caused "extreme pain and distress" to her victim through her vile campaign to harm her.
The girl was left with "deep muscle scars and multiple scars" and the violence resulted in her having to undergo repeated "painful" and "invasive" medical examinations including bone marrow extractions.
The prosecutor's office said in a written reference to the court that it was found that the victim had an infection throughout the body due to contamination with "polluting organisms" for which "doctors were unable to determine a medical explanation", and later the doctors concluded that the infection was caused by Frager injecting fecal material into the the victim's body.
Frager did not attempt to explain her actions, but Rosalind Smith, the defendant's representative, said the court should take her "vulnerability and fragility" into account in sentencing.
After the hearing, Solicitor General Michael Tomlinson said of the case: "This was a very disturbing case of child cruelty and it was clear to me that Elizabeth Frager's horrific actions required a stronger prison sentence as today's ruling shows that all forms of cruelty to children will be met with the harshest possible punishment."
In a similar incident dating back to 2016, a 41-year-old woman named Tiffany Albert injected her son, who is in the hospital for treatment of leukemia, with similar pollutants, with the aim of enhancing his condition and thus transferring him to the intensive care unit because “her health conditions are better.” .
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