"Jane" DILLARD-LUBIN - Eugene OR

Washington County woman will be arraigned Tursday on charges
stemming from an incident that occurred in June where she gave her
infant daughter a high dose of morphine in order to gain attention from
the father of the child.

Details of Event:
On June 3, 2009, 25-year-old Sara Rose Dillard-Lubin took her then
two-month-old daughter to the emergency room at St. Vincent's Hospital
claiming that her daughter had a high fever. Although the doctors were
unable to find any signs of the fever they were cautious and admitted
the infant for observation overnight.
Early the next morning, on June 4th, a nurse on her scheduled rounds
found the infant and the mother presumably asleep in the hospital room.
The nurse took the vital signs of the child and was alarmed to find the
child barely breathing with a low heart rate.
The nurse immediately called for assistance and the child was
eventually transported to Doernbecher's Children's Hospital and
admitted to the critical care unit. The young girl survived because of
the prompt attention she received at the hospital.
Doctors were puzzled as to the cause of the child's sudden medical
condition. Four days later they got their answer when the toxicology
tests came back positive for opiates. Upon discovering the drug in the
child's system, doctors asked Ms. Dillard-Lubin how that could have
happened.
Ms. Dillard-Lubin told the hospital that she was on a pain killer
for a medical condition and the opiates must have come through her
breast milk. When she brought in a sample for them to test, they found
a high amount of morphine in the milk, indicating that it had been
added after she extracted it from her body.
Doctors called the Oregon Department of Human Services, Child
Protective Services, and reported the unusual series of events that had
occurred. DHS started an investigation and took custody of the child
for her safety. Washington County Sheriff's Detectives were called by
the hospital to investigate any crimes that may have occurred.
Since DHS had taken custody of the child and she was safe,
Detectives decided to wait before they interviewed Ms. Dillard-Lubin so
that DHS could continue their investigation without interference.

Detectives suspect that Ms. Dillard-Lubin was upset that the father
of the child did not come to the hospital when she initially admitted
the baby with a fever. They believe that, in order to gain the fathers
attention, Ms. Dillard-Lubin decided to poison her baby with morphine
while they were still at the hospital.
Detectives eventually arrested Ms. Dillard-Lubin on a probation
violation. During their investigation Detectives learned that Ms.
Dillard-Lubin is on probation after being convicted in Los Angeles
County of Willful Cruelty to a Child.
That conviction stemmed from the poisoning of Ms. Dillard-Lubin's
then ten-month-old child. In a very similar situation, Ms.
Dillard-Lubin used morphine to create a medical emergency. The child
was flown to UCLA Medical Center and survived. He was taken from Ms.
Dillard-Lubin and custody was eventually given to the father, who is
not the same father of the infant girl in the Washington County Case.
Ms. Dillard-Lubin was sentenced to four to six months in jail and when she was released she transferred her probation to Oregon.
Up until the time of her arrest, Ms. Dillard-Lubin worked as a
medical assistant for Oregon Pediatrics. She has minimal medical
training and is not a licensed nurse.
On wednesday, Ms. Dillard-Lubin was indicted on several charges
stemming from the assault on her child. She will be arraigned today at
10:30 am at the main court house located at 150 N. 1st Avenue.

A Washington County woman who worked as a medical assistant
pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges she injected morphine
into her 2-month-old daughter June 3 in an attempt to gain
attention from her husband.
Police say 25-year-old Sara Rose Dillard-Lubin took her
daughter to the emergency room at St. Vincent's
Hospital in Beaverton claiming the girl had a fever.
Early the next morning a nurse found the infant and the
mother asleep in the hospital room, but was alarmed to find
the baby barely breathing and with a weak pulse when she
took vital signs. The girl was transferred to Doernbecher Children's
Hospital and her life was saved by doctors, who were puzzled
at the child's sudden condition.
Toxicology tests later revealed the presence of opiates,
but Dillard-Lubin claimed the pain killers must have come
from her breast milk. When tested, the amount of morphine in
the breast milk exceeded what would have been present as the
result of ingestion by the mother, indicating it had been
added after extraction, investigators say.
Child Protective Services was called and a criminal
investigation began. Washington County Sheriff's Office
detectives questioned Dillard-Lubin and found she may have
injected the baby with morphine to gain her husband's
attention by making the baby's illness seem more
serious than it was.
They also found Dillard-Lubin was on probation for a
conviction of willful cruelty to a child in California in
connection with her older child, then 10 months old.
Until her arrest, Dillard-Lubin worked as a medical
assistant for Oregon Pediatrics, said WCSO Sgt. David
Thompson. She has minimal medical training and is not a
licensed nurse.

A woman who was on probation for feeding her toddler son in California now faces felony assault charges for doping her infant daughter with a near-lethal dose of morphine in Oregon.
Police said Sara Rose Dillard, aka Sara Rose Lubin, drugged her
2-month-old daughter June 4 in an alleged attempt to get attention from
the child's father.
The infant was immediately rushed to the critical care center at Doernbecher's Children's Hospital in Portland and survived.
But it took several weeks for officers to unravel Dillard's past
and her previous conviction of Willful Cruelty to a Child under the
last name of Lubin in Los Angeles. In the previous conviction, Dillard
was also accused of creating a medical emergency to get the attention
of her child's father.
Messages to Dillard's lawyer, Dean Smith, were not returned Friday, and ABCNews.com could not find a listed number for Dillard.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A mother who admitted to having fed her baby
morphine-laced milk in order to get attention from the baby's father, a
married man, was sentenced on Wednesday.

Sarah Dillard was sentenced to 7 years in prison. Sarah Dillard pleaded guilty to five counts of assault.

The 2-month-old baby girl did not survive the drugging.

"I love my daughter, and I deeply regret the harm that has come to her," Dillard said.

As part of her sentence, Dillard is required to undergo mental health treatment and cannot have contact with children.

Prosecutors
say Dillard suffers from Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy, a mental
illness in which a person acts as if an individual he or she is caring
for has a physical or mental illness when the person is not really
sick.

In 2005, Dillard was convicted for harming their 10-month-old son and spent six months in prison in California.

"My
son got sick, stopped breathing one day, was rushed to the hospital at
which point they found morphine in his system," said Dillard's
ex-husband, Clifford Lubin.

Lubin said several years ago he
realized his son may not be the only victim as Dillard is "still the
same person she was five years ago when she did this the first time."

"I kind of expected something like this to come up again in the future. I didn't necessarily know how long it was going to take.

"She
needs to be constantly monitored. She needs to be put away so she can't
hurt anyone else, specifically little children," he said.