A Berlin woman will spend 18 years in jail for assaulting nine children in her care.
In a hearing last Friday, Worcester County Circuit Court Judge Brian Shockley sentenced Heather Ward, 40, of Berlin, to 18 years for the nine misdemeanor assault charges for which she had tendered an Alford plea in August. For each of the nine counts, Ward received 10 years, with all but two years suspended. Her sentence for each count will be served consecutively for a total of 18 years.
“It’s disturbing,” Shockley said of Ward’s actions last week, “and it’s heartbreaking.”
Friday’s sentencing comes one year after the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office began an investigation into the Berlin Activities Depot after law enforcement and Child Protective Services were notified of an eight-month-old who had been admitted to Atlantic General Hospital with a broken tibia. The sheriff’s office alleged that video footage of the infant classroom revealed Ward, one of the daycare’s employees, had caused the child’s injuries and showed other concerning interactions with several other infants under her supervision.
As a result, a grand jury in March indicted Ward on 90 charges, including 10 felony counts of child abuse and 80 misdemeanor counts of second-degree assault. And in August, as part of an agreement with the Worcester County State’s Attorney’s Office, Ward submitted an Alford plea for nine of the assault charges, representing the nine victims in the case.
Come someone please explain to me why the MD Judicial System coddles PERVERTS? These children are scarred for life and the Judges are grooming the PERVERTED perps whose “pronouns” will be normalized as “minor-attracted”.
Can anyone explain to me why the MD Judiciary coddles PERVERTS who scar their victims for life?