Man sentenced to 180 days in jail for trying to get wife to abort

Houston Texas.- The Harris County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed the sentence Attorney Mason HerringAfter confessing to putting abortion pills in drinking water His wife Catherine Haring, who was several months pregnant.

This happened in 2022, when Catherine was expecting her child, but Mason Haring has admitted that having a child is not in his plans And she planned to try to lose him.

Surprisingly, for some, Herring, a lawyer in Houston, will only serve 180 days in jail and 10 years on probation. According to District Judge Andrea Beal’s ruling.

And the man, 39 years old, He never faced murder charges because the baby survived and was born prematurely.About 10 weeks ahead of schedule.

In court documents reviewed by Univision 45It is mentioned The accused was allegedly having an affair with another woman and was not planning to have a child.

“Accused Tried to secretly abort her unborn child and the plaintiff’s cause The pregnancy did not fit into his plans to maintain a relationship with another woman” says the document.

On February 7, Mrs. Kathryn Herring He revealed to the court that, indeed, his daughter had survived and was now one-and-a-half years old. In addition, she revealed that in 2022 she started divorce proceedings with Herring.

It was the woman who began to suspect that her husband was possibly harming her when he kept giving her water.

According to information obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency, Catherine Haring said that in March 2022 Her husband started telling her to hydrate better and give her water.

Soon after, the pregnant woman became seriously ill, however, according to the AP. Herring justified everything by saying that the city’s dirty pipes were probably to blame.

Catherine Haring became suspicious and, After going through the garbage in his house, he found a drug that was used to induce abortion.

Mason Herring’s sentence of 180 days and 10 years of probation in this case has shocked some. But how did he achieve this punishment?

In 2022, Haring faced charges Felony assault to induce an abortion and his bond was set at $50,000, according to court documents.

However, after pleading guilty in 2024, Charges of injury to a child and assault on a pregnant person were downgraded.

Herring is scheduled to report to the Harris County Jail on March 1 to complete his jail time.

Even in his statement Ms. Catherine Herring also took the opportunity to question the decision of the Harris County Prosecutor’s Office Jailing a man for only 180 days, According to the woman, he tried to kill her daughter several times.

According to information from ABC13, Ms. Kathryn also explained that her daughter had submitted developmental problems and needs to take her to therapy at least eight times a week.

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