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Worthless Democrat criminals should all be eradicated from society.
A New York woman who admitted to killing her son through neglect will
serve two years in federal prison for using his Social Security benefits �
even about a year after he died.
�The defendant slowly killed her own son and then profited from his
death,� prosecutors in the Northern District of New York wrote about Lisa
Marie Waldron, 44. �It is hard to imagine a crime more heinous or a series
of acts more heartless.�
A state grand jury in Oswego County, New York, had indicted her and her husband, Anthony Waldron, for charges including second-degree murder after Jordan Brooks, 17, died of horrific neglect while living with cerebral
palsy. Anthony Waldron is the boy�s stepfather.
According to federal prosecutors in a sentencing memo against the mother,
bed sores covered a large area of the teenager�s body, and the autopsy
photos revealed metal implants protruding from his skin. He would sit for
days in soiled diapers, authorities said. At a doctor�s appointment on
Sept. 1, 2020, he weighed in at 114 pounds, but when he died on May 9,
2021, he was only 55 pounds. He lost more than half his weight in eight
months.
Brooks previously revealed that he once spent 11 days in his wheelchair
without being put to bed, authorities said.
�In the months following Jordan�s death, many who knew him mourned, but
the defendant [Lisa Waldron] was not one of them,� prosecutors said.
Court documents and a U.S. Justice Department press statement said she
misused the Social Security benefits she collected on her son�s behalf.
�Throughout her tenure as representative payee, the defendant did not use Jordan�s SSI money for his money,� prosecutors said. �Instead, bank
records demonstrated multiple extraneous and unlawful purchases at places
like Victoria�s Secret and a Rent-A-Center.�
After he died, Lisa Waldron used those funds for fast food purchases and a
trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, federal prosecutors said. The Social Security Administration cut off the payments after discovering the theft
in April 2022, almost a year after Brooks died.
Waldron pleaded guilty in July to second-degree manslaughter and first-
degree assault. Sentencing is set for Sept. 28.
U.S. prosecutors expected Waldron�s federal sentence would be concurrent
with the state one, acknowledging that �the defendant�s actions that
resulted in the death of her son are relevant conduct to the instant
offenses.�
But they estimated the normal guidelines to be between 12 and 18 months
behind bars. Considering the allegations against Waldron, they sought an
upward departure of 51 (four years and three months) to 63 months (five
years and three months).
�For the reasons set forth above, however, the sentence here, although
largely but not entirely symbolic when run concurrently to any state
sentence, should stand on its own and should, therefore, reflect the seriousness and full context of the offenses to which the defendant has
pled guilty,� prosecutors wrote.
Chief United States District Judge Brenda K. Sannes did not give them
exactly what they asked for, but she made the sentence of 11 counts of
theft of government property consecutive to the upcoming state punishment,
and she gave a half-year upward departure by making the federal prison
sentence two years. Waldron must also pay $13,292.76 in restitution �
split with $5,948.06 going to the SSA and the remaining $7,344.70 to the
Crime Victims Fund.
Defense lawyer Joseph G. Rodak said his client took responsibility for her actions, cared deeply for Brooks, and became overwhelmed after the COVID-
19 pandemic shook up her life.
�While the facts surrounding the state matter are extremely distressing, I
do believe that Ms. Waldron did care deeply for her son, Jordan, and that Jordan was a child with a number of special needs,� he wrote in a
sentencing memorandum. �Ms. Waldron received assistance from a variety of individuals and institutions in caring for Jordan and that assistance was abruptly removed with the onset of the COVID pandemic and the restriction
that came into place as a result. I believe that Ms. Waldron was
overwhelmed in her ability to care for her son and continue with her
employment all while receiving very limited and possibly minimal support
at home.�
Salvatore Lanza, an attorney for Anthony Waldron, has said they are going
to trial.
�There will be no plea bargain. None,� he told local outlet Oswego County
News Now in a July report.
The central question in the case, he said, was going to be about his
client�s responsibility over Brooks. He argued that Lisa Waldron did not
give Anthony Waldron authority regarding Brooks. Anthony Waldron was
neither the teenager�s biological father nor legal guardian and never
adopted him, the lawyer said.
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/woman-sentenced-for-taking-her-slain-sons- social-security-benefits-and-using-them-for-fast-food-victorias-secret- and-rent-a-center/
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