During Friday’s hearing, Judge Sarah Lincoln told the 24-year-old she was “possibly the most evil personwho has ever been in this courtroom,” according to theBattle Creek Enquirer.
“You were attempting to kill him slowly,” Lincoln said Friday. “Had you wanted to kill this child you could have done it quicker and more painless but you subjected him to months if not years of prolonged suffering.”
In March 2017, Schug brought her frail son, Maloyd Gaines, to a local hospital. The boy had difficulty breathing and was nearly dead, according to theEnquirer.His feet had been bound and he had lost one toe to gangrene.
Hospital staff feared the boy would not live and transferred him to a hospital in Kalamazoo, where he was listed in critical condition, theEnquirerreports.
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Schug’s boyfriend, 36-year-old Isaac Miller, wascharged with second-degree childabuse and on Monday pleaded no contest, according to theEnquirer.
Schug told the judge on Friday that she was sorry for the abuse. She said she locked her son in the closet to protect him Miller’s violence, the paper reports. But prosecutors argued none of Schug’s actions were undertaken out of love.
“Children were nothing more than a meal ticket for her,” Chief Assistant Calhoun County Prosecutor Daniel Buscher said in court, theEnquirerreports. “There are not adequate words for what she did to her own flesh and blood, let alone any child.”
source: people.com
