In February 2024, we reported that Mason Herring, a Houston attorney, had pleaded guilty to injury to a child and assault of a pregnant person. As part of a plea bargain, Herring was sentenced to a slap on wrist–180 days in jail and 10 years of probation–for secretly drugging his wife’s drinks multiple times to induce an abortion while she was pregnant with their third child.
Herring admitted spiking water with the abortion drug misoprostol, which Catherine Herring told the court resulted in her giving birth 10 weeks early. Fortunately, the unborn child survived.
But last week, KTRK, a Houston television station, reported that the disgraced lawyer was sentenced to eight years in prison for violating a civil protection order taken out by his ex-wife in 2022, the same year she divorced him.
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According to reporter Luke Jones, Herring twice violated the protective order that said he was “supposed to stay at least 500 feet away from his ex-wife and cease communication with her because of the protection order.
Yet court records show Catherine Herring told police he tried calling her twice on Feb.11.
Mason Herring is also accused of violating the 500-foot perimeter two times during supervised visits with his three children.
As one of the visits at his apartment was wrapping up, on Feb.22, police say he lingered in the lobby until Catherine Herring arrived to pick up the children. Police say he even looked out of the window and told the children she was there.
On March 23, police say he pulled up “nearby” in a vehicle while his ex-wife was dropping the children off
Prosecutors allege Mason Herring knew full well when Catherine Herring would be arriving to drop off the children
There is no record of Catherine responding to the new sentencing. But at the time of the original ultra-light sentence, “I do not believe that 180 days is justice for attempting to kill your child seven separate times,” she said according to Daniela Hurtado and Courtney Fischer of ABC13. “For two years, my husband has overly denied this assault, and I’m grateful today that he has finally admitted to his guilt.”
Mrs. Herring said that as a result of her ex-husband’s multiple attempts
their 1-year-old daughter was born premature, has developmental delays and attends therapy eight times a week. “Incredibly hard, unspeakably difficult, we just take one day at a time,” she said.
Background
Ms. Herring said, “it started after she found out he was having an affair and asked for a separation,” Choi reported.
That’s when she found out she was pregnant with their third child. She said he wasn’t happy about it and even sent a text message saying that it would ruin his plans and make him look like a “jerk.”
Mrs. Herring said her husband’s first attempt to poison her
was during spring break when he gave her a glass of cloudy water and mentioned the importance of staying hydrated. She didn’t suspect anything at the time, but she became violently ill and had to go to the emergency room.
After that, she said, he continued to bring her drinks that were spiked with what she eventually found out was misoprostol, a drug used to induce abortions.
She said she didn’t consume the drinks, but instead kept them as evidence and turned them over to Houston police. She also provided videos from hidden cameras she installed at her home where he was no longer living.
Subsequently Mrs. Herring “became ill and was taken to urgent care. The baby survived after being born 10 weeks prematurely and weighed just over three pounds,” Hurtado and Fischer
“I watched in real-time as darkness overcame you. As addictions became your priority,” Catherine said to Mason.
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. This post originally appeared in his National Right to Life News Today —- an online column on pro-life issues.
