Woman gets eight-month sentence in poisoning of child

A 30-year-old Regina woman has been sentenced to eight months in jail in connection with the poisoning of a child last year.

Jessica Rae Fehr initially was charged in June of 2021 with aggravated assault (endangering the life of the victim) and administering a noxious substance (alcohol and Benadryl) to a 21-month-old girl.

Fehr, who’s not the girl’s mother, was sentenced after pleading guilty in Regina Provincial Court to criminal negligence causing bodily harm. She also was handed two years of probation.

In a media release from June of 2021, the Regina Police Service said officers and paramedics responded on May 11 of that year to a call of a toddler who was not breathing. Officers who arrived at the scene in the 100 block of Broad Street provided medical assistance to the toddler until paramedics took over.

“Officers gathered statements from two adults, who were present in the house during the incident, as well as the child’s parents, who arrived at the house after police and EMS,” the police release said. “At the hospital, investigators learned that the child had acute ethanol poisoning.”

Officers continued to investigate and arrested Fehr a little over a month later.

— With files from The Canadian Press