By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – The 25-year-old Centralia mother who admitted exposing her two children to meth smoke is off to prison with a sentence of a year and a day.
Sabrina L. Sumter pleaded guilty in Lewis County Superior Court to two counts of endangerment with a controlled substance and one count of possession of methamphetamine.
Sabrina L. Sumter / File photo
When she went before a judge on Friday, the judge agreed to the sentence that was within the standard range, according to Lewis County Prosecutor Jonathan Meyer.
Sumter had been arrested at the end of June, the same day Centralia police learned a test result had come back showing positive for the presence of the drug in Sumter’s 3-month-old baby girl.
The only reason the discovery was made, was the infant died unexpectedly in May and the coroner’s office conducted an autopsy and tests to figure out why.
It turned out to have been an accidental death, the baby suffocated while sharing a bed with her mother, according to authorities.
After she was arrested, Sumter admitted that she and others smoked meth in her home, exposing the children, according to prosecutors.
Meyer said two issues were unrelated, in his expert’s opinion.
“The meth in the child’s system was not the cause of death,” he said this week.
Had he been able to link them and show criminality, he would have pursued the case differently, he said.
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For background, read “Centralia infant exposed to meth smoke died of something different” from Friday July 7, 2017, here
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
That’s someone who should not be allowed to have children in her care until such time as she has proven to be off drugs. There’s no excuse that validates exposing a child to that vaporous death.
Were a judge able, she could be given a choice. Locked up until such time as she is naturally no longer fertile, or no jail time as soon as she get sterilized.
Yeah! Fry her! With bacon!… in lots of butter-based batter!… with a side of sausage!… eggs over medium… perhaps a Denver omelette? Why not pour some country gravy over that thing. Throw in a side of grits. Oh, you know what you could do? You could put a fried egg on top of the Denver omelette, stuffed with extra cut-up sausage, and just dump country gravy over the whole thing… Okay, I’m just starving.
Fry her.