Overview

• Mason Herring, a Texas attorney, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 10 years probation after pleading guilty to injuring a child and assaulting a pregnant person.
• The sentence follows Herring's attempts to induce an abortion in his pregnant wife by slipping abortion-inducing drugs into her drinks.
• Catherine Herring, the estranged wife, criticized the sentence as insufficient, highlighting their daughter's developmental delays and the need for therapy eight times a week.
• The couple's daughter, born 10 weeks premature, survived despite Herring's multiple attempts to terminate the pregnancy.
• Evidence included video footage of Herring mixing a substance into his wife's drink and packaging for misoprostol, an abortion drug, found in the trash.