CA jury rejects sanity appeal by baby-killing mom (AP)

[Yahoo! News]

AP - A jury has found that a California woman who ran over her infant son with the family Volvo more than 20 years ago is still a danger and cannot be released from court-ordered mental care. Jurors took less than an hour to reach their unanimous decision in the rare civil proceeding involving the sanity of Sheryl Lynn Massip, 46, who remained composed as the verdict was read. The trial lasted two weeks.

Massip was convicted of murder in 1988 in the death of her 6-week-old son Michael after she placed him under the front tire of her car and ran him over on her 23rd birthday. A judge later set aside the verdict, reduced the charge to manslaughter and found Massip not guilty by reason of insanity.

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