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"John" Grossman - 9 months - (11/2010) / Convicted: Lynn Crossman, mother - Orono ME
by twinkletoes Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:59 am
Woman who broke 9-month-old son’s leg gets nine months in jail
By Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN Staff
Posted April 11, 2012, at 12:30 p.m.
Last modified April 11, 2012, at 3:33 p.m.
Lynn Crossman during her sentencing at Penobscot Judicial Center on Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Superior
Court Justice John Nivison listens to defense attorney Stephen Smith
make his sentencing recommendations during Lynn Crossman's sentencing at
Penobscot Judicial Center Wednesday, April 11, 2012. She was sentenced
to three years with all but nine months suspended for breaking her
nine-month-old son's leg.
Lynn Crossman during her sentencing at Penobscot Judicial Center on Wednesday, April 11, 2012.
BANGOR, Maine — The former Orono woman convicted last month of aggravated assault for breaking the leg of her 9-month-old son was sentenced Wednesday to three years behind bars with all but nine months suspended.
Lynn Crossman, 24, of Brewer admitted to police that she hit her son on the leg for crying while she was arguing with her parents on the phone in November 2010.
Assistant
District Attorney Alice Clifford asked Superior Court Justice John
Nivison to impose a three-year sentence on Crossman with all but nine to
12 months suspended and two years of probation when she is released, as
well as special conditions of release that require a psychological
evaluation, counseling and no unsupervised contact with minors.
Defense
attorney Stephen Smith, saying his client has lived a tough life but
has worked for the same fast food restaurant for the last four years,
asked the judge for a lighter sentence.
“Three years with all but four months [suspended] is appropriate for the crime,” Smith said.
Nivison
said Crossman’s work record, the lack of any prior criminal record, and
her age were mitigating factors in the case, but he said an aggravating
factor was that Crossman “hasn’t taken responsibility for the conduct.”
“Any time a vulnerable member of society is abused, it is a serious offense,” Nivison said.
He imposed the sentence and Crossman was taken into custody.
During
her two-day trial, Crossman denied that she told former Orono police
Detective Andrew Whitehouse and hospital staff that she had hit her son
while arguing with her parents on the phone.
Crossman
said she remembered speaking to the detective — who told the jury the
day before that she admitted to assaulting her child — but not the
specific questions he asked.
Crossman testified she hit her infant son after he kicked his brother while lying on a bed on the day before he was taken to the hospital for the broken leg.
The
baby was taken to the emergency room at Eastern Maine Medical Center in
Bangor on Nov. 6, 2010, with a broken left femur and hand-print bruising on his back that is a “classic injury” in child abuse cases, two doctors testified.
Crossman’s
two children, the baby, who is now just over 2 years of age, and his
older brother, who is about 3½, were taken by the Department of Health
and Human Services and have been adopted, Eric Winslow, the children’s
father, said last month.
Winslow, who was
outside the courtroom during Crossman’s sentencing, said he was not
surprised by the sentence the judge imposed on his girlfriend.
After
court, Clifford stood on the front steps of the Penobscot Judicial
Center and said “the state is satisfied” with the sentence. With two
years of probation, “if there are any sort of slip-ups, she’ll have that
threat of serving the rest of her sentence” hanging over her head,
Clifford said of Crossman.
Crossman’s defense attorney said he is appealing the conviction.
“The paperwork will be filed today,” Smith said.
By Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN Staff
Posted April 11, 2012, at 12:30 p.m.
Last modified April 11, 2012, at 3:33 p.m.
Lynn Crossman during her sentencing at Penobscot Judicial Center on Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Superior
Court Justice John Nivison listens to defense attorney Stephen Smith
make his sentencing recommendations during Lynn Crossman's sentencing at
Penobscot Judicial Center Wednesday, April 11, 2012. She was sentenced
to three years with all but nine months suspended for breaking her
nine-month-old son's leg.
Lynn Crossman during her sentencing at Penobscot Judicial Center on Wednesday, April 11, 2012.
BANGOR, Maine — The former Orono woman convicted last month of aggravated assault for breaking the leg of her 9-month-old son was sentenced Wednesday to three years behind bars with all but nine months suspended.
Lynn Crossman, 24, of Brewer admitted to police that she hit her son on the leg for crying while she was arguing with her parents on the phone in November 2010.
Assistant
District Attorney Alice Clifford asked Superior Court Justice John
Nivison to impose a three-year sentence on Crossman with all but nine to
12 months suspended and two years of probation when she is released, as
well as special conditions of release that require a psychological
evaluation, counseling and no unsupervised contact with minors.
Defense
attorney Stephen Smith, saying his client has lived a tough life but
has worked for the same fast food restaurant for the last four years,
asked the judge for a lighter sentence.
“Three years with all but four months [suspended] is appropriate for the crime,” Smith said.
Nivison
said Crossman’s work record, the lack of any prior criminal record, and
her age were mitigating factors in the case, but he said an aggravating
factor was that Crossman “hasn’t taken responsibility for the conduct.”
“Any time a vulnerable member of society is abused, it is a serious offense,” Nivison said.
He imposed the sentence and Crossman was taken into custody.
During
her two-day trial, Crossman denied that she told former Orono police
Detective Andrew Whitehouse and hospital staff that she had hit her son
while arguing with her parents on the phone.
Crossman
said she remembered speaking to the detective — who told the jury the
day before that she admitted to assaulting her child — but not the
specific questions he asked.
Crossman testified she hit her infant son after he kicked his brother while lying on a bed on the day before he was taken to the hospital for the broken leg.
The
baby was taken to the emergency room at Eastern Maine Medical Center in
Bangor on Nov. 6, 2010, with a broken left femur and hand-print bruising on his back that is a “classic injury” in child abuse cases, two doctors testified.
Crossman’s
two children, the baby, who is now just over 2 years of age, and his
older brother, who is about 3½, were taken by the Department of Health
and Human Services and have been adopted, Eric Winslow, the children’s
father, said last month.
Winslow, who was
outside the courtroom during Crossman’s sentencing, said he was not
surprised by the sentence the judge imposed on his girlfriend.
After
court, Clifford stood on the front steps of the Penobscot Judicial
Center and said “the state is satisfied” with the sentence. With two
years of probation, “if there are any sort of slip-ups, she’ll have that
threat of serving the rest of her sentence” hanging over her head,
Clifford said of Crossman.
Crossman’s defense attorney said he is appealing the conviction.
“The paperwork will be filed today,” Smith said.
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