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03-03-2004, 07:14 AM
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http://www.heraldandnews.com/articles/2004/03/02/news/top_stories/top1.txt
Meth mom gets 10 years
Christina Jane Green, center, enters a guilty plea in court Monday.
Published March 2, 2004
By DOUG HIGGS
A Klamath Falls woman who admitted to repeatedly injecting methamphetamine into
the bloodstream of her 16-year-old daughter will spend 10 years in prison for
the crime.
So will her live-in boyfriend, who also admitted to injecting the girl with
drugs.
Christina Jane Green, 36, and Mel Allen Cunningham, 45, gave up their initial
pleas of being innocent to the crimes, and entered guilty pleas Monday before
Judge Rodger Isaacson in Klamath County Circuit Court.
"What they did was totally incomprehensible," Isaacson said in handing down the
10-year sentences.
It was only when the teenager was injected three times in one day that she
suffered overdose symptoms and went to the hospital, which alerted authorities
to the situation.
The girl is now residing with an adoptive set of parents.
Isaacson was especially critical of Green, saying he couldn't understand how
she, as a mother, could commit such a "despicable and vile act."
"Fortunately, the overdose did not kill her," said Scott Carter, the Klamath
County deputy district attorney who prosecuted the case. The girl, who has
since turned a year older, told authorities she thought at one point she was
going to die.
But there were no lasting physical effects, Carter said.
Isaacson said he hopes the girl does not blame herself for what happened.
Green pleaded guilty to all seven counts against her, one of second-degree
assault and six of application of a controlled substance to the body of another
person.
Cunningham withdrew previous not-guilty pleas to four of the seven counts
against him, with the other three counts being dismissed. His guilty pleas were
to second-degree assault and three counts of application of a controlled
substance to the body of another person.
Both Green and Cunningham already had felony drug convictions, Carter said.
The counts against the two alleged the injection of methamphetamine on the girl
once in late November, twice on Jan. 6 and three times on Jan. 7.
Green, who has three daughters, had her parental rights terminated about five
years ago.
The two younger daughters, including the 16-year-old victim, were living with
their adoptive parents when they skipped school on Jan. 5 and went to the home
of their mother at 2152 Gettle St.
The next day, the 16-year-old began getting injections of meth.
Isaacson said he will recommend to the Oregon Corrections Division that Green
not have any contact with any of her daughters.
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A good friend will come and bail you out of jail . . . but, a true friend will
be sitting next to you saying, "Damn . . . that was fun!"
-----Unknown
http://www.heraldandnews.com/articles/2004/03/02/news/top_stories/top1.txt
Meth mom gets 10 years
Christina Jane Green, center, enters a guilty plea in court Monday.
Published March 2, 2004
By DOUG HIGGS
A Klamath Falls woman who admitted to repeatedly injecting methamphetamine into
the bloodstream of her 16-year-old daughter will spend 10 years in prison for
the crime.
So will her live-in boyfriend, who also admitted to injecting the girl with
drugs.
Christina Jane Green, 36, and Mel Allen Cunningham, 45, gave up their initial
pleas of being innocent to the crimes, and entered guilty pleas Monday before
Judge Rodger Isaacson in Klamath County Circuit Court.
"What they did was totally incomprehensible," Isaacson said in handing down the
10-year sentences.
It was only when the teenager was injected three times in one day that she
suffered overdose symptoms and went to the hospital, which alerted authorities
to the situation.
The girl is now residing with an adoptive set of parents.
Isaacson was especially critical of Green, saying he couldn't understand how
she, as a mother, could commit such a "despicable and vile act."
"Fortunately, the overdose did not kill her," said Scott Carter, the Klamath
County deputy district attorney who prosecuted the case. The girl, who has
since turned a year older, told authorities she thought at one point she was
going to die.
But there were no lasting physical effects, Carter said.
Isaacson said he hopes the girl does not blame herself for what happened.
Green pleaded guilty to all seven counts against her, one of second-degree
assault and six of application of a controlled substance to the body of another
person.
Cunningham withdrew previous not-guilty pleas to four of the seven counts
against him, with the other three counts being dismissed. His guilty pleas were
to second-degree assault and three counts of application of a controlled
substance to the body of another person.
Both Green and Cunningham already had felony drug convictions, Carter said.
The counts against the two alleged the injection of methamphetamine on the girl
once in late November, twice on Jan. 6 and three times on Jan. 7.
Green, who has three daughters, had her parental rights terminated about five
years ago.
The two younger daughters, including the 16-year-old victim, were living with
their adoptive parents when they skipped school on Jan. 5 and went to the home
of their mother at 2152 Gettle St.
The next day, the 16-year-old began getting injections of meth.
Isaacson said he will recommend to the Oregon Corrections Division that Green
not have any contact with any of her daughters.
-------------------------
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail . . . but, a true friend will
be sitting next to you saying, "Damn . . . that was fun!"
-----Unknown
