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REDWOOD CITY, CA (Gray News) – Sarah Jane Lockner will spend the next four years on probation under supervision but will not go to jail.
The 27-year-old from Redwood City was charged with trying to drown her newborn son in a McDonald's restroom in September 2017, moments after delivery.
Originally, prosecutors accused Lockner of attempted murder, but the terms of his plea agreement put an end to the charge, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
In January, she did not plead for the endangerment of children in danger. Judge Stephanie Garratt imposed a one – year prison sentence last Friday, but she deserves credit for the time already spent behind bars.
Her colleagues knew something was wrong when she continued running to the bathroom on the day of the alleged incident. Lockner was complaining of stomach pains throughout the shift.
At one point, a colleague went to check her well-being and saw blood on the floor, which Lockner fired as a result of an intense period.
Yet when a second colleague went to see her, she looked at the stall and watched Lockner hold the newborn baby face down in the bathroom, the Mercury News reported.
The persecutors claimed that Lockner had begged the colleague not to call the police, but she still did.
Officers who responded found that the boy was not breathing and was without a pulse. He survived the ordeal and lives with his father's aunt.
Authorities said it was the second child of Lockner. She had given birth to another child at home five years ago.
She would not have known she was pregnant in both cases.
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