DECATUR, IN — Sasha J. Hunt, 23, of Berne, Indiana, was sentenced July 27 to 12 years probation for a Class B felony charge of attempted aggravated battery. The charge stems from an incident Oct. 13, 2013, in which she “knowingly inflicted injury on a person that created a substantial risk of death,” according to court documents.

The person was Hunt’s three month old child. According to the probable cause affidavit, Hunt stuffed a sock in her infant son’s mouth and wrapped the boy’s head with tape to hold it in place, then swaddled him in a blanket and placed him face-down on a pillow in a closet, closing the door.

Her husband, Nathan Hunt, had left the home for approximately 15-20 minutes. When he returned, he heard muffled cries coming from the closet and found the boy. He told police he unwrapped the baby and pulled the sock from his mouth, then turned around and saw his wife “appearing as if she was a different person.”

Nathan Hunt reported the incident to Berne police. Prosecutors initially charged Sasha Hunt with Class A felony attempted murder and Class C felony neglect of a dependent. She agreed to a plea deal in March for the lesser Class B felony attempted aggravated battery.

Huntington County Prosecutor Amy Richison was brought in to try the case and asked the judge to sentence Hunt to 12 years, 10 in prison and two years probation. However, Hunt received 12 years probation instead along with a no-contact order preventing her from seeing her two children.

Hunt, who reportedly suffers from bipolar disorder, had also previously bruised the child, and according to the affidavit claimed “she wished the infant had never been born” and “she wished the boy would just die.” Nathan Hunt told investigators his wife had pushed an air conditioning unit out of a window, kicked holes in the walls of their home, attacked him and put crushed prescription drugs in his drink because “he was too boring.”

Source: WANE