St. Paul woman gets jail for family threats
Pioneer Press
Posted: 04/13/2011 12:01:00 AM CDT
A St. Paul woman who threatened to kill her husband and children was sentenced Tuesday to 180 days in jail.
Mai Neng Xiong, 39, pleaded guilty to one count of terroristic threats after a Dec. 18 incident in which she and her husband argued about money while sitting in a car in a St. Paul Kmart parking lot.
She admitted she threatened to kill her husband and children and tried to set newspapers on fire in the car.
Ramsey County District Judge Joanne Smith gave Mai Neng Xiong a 180-day jail sentence with credit for 114 days already served. The judge added an 18-month stayed prison sentence, to be imposed if terms of a five-year probation period aren't followed. Smith ordered the woman to undergo psychological treatment and imposed a nocontact order forbidding her to contact her husband and five of her children.
Mai Neng Xiong had previously been convicted of malicious punishment of a child after tearing her 7-year-old daughter's ear with a wrench on Nov. 9. She was sentenced to time served in that case.
— Richard Chin
St. Paul mother sentenced for threatening children
Judge orders probation, stays prison
Pioneer Press
Posted: 04/13/2011 12:01:00 AM CDT
A St. Paul mother accused of menacing her small children and threatening to burn down the house was sentenced Tuesday to five years' probation.
Ramsey County District Judge Gail Chang Bohr also gave Robin Winona Boxer, 26, a stayed prison sentence of one year and three months, which she must serve if she does not comply with terms of her probation. Bohr also ordered Boxer to complete anger-management and parenting classes.
Boxer pleaded guilty to two counts of terroristic threats stemming from a Nov. 6 incident in which she threw her 4-year-old son to the floor, pushed on her 7-year-old son's eyeballs and threatened to kill everyone in the house in the 600 block of Farrington Street.
At Tuesday's sentencing, Boxer's grandmother, Almeta Boxer, said her granddaughter had a difficult childhood. Almeta Boxer, who was also threatened in the incident, said Robin Boxer was sexually molested as a young girl.
She said her granddaughter was acting out to get help for her anxiety and depression and that the children wanted to see her.
"We're missing her, they're missing her and they would like to have her home," Almeta Boxer said.
"I know what I said was horrible," Robin Boxer said at sentencing. "I would never hurt my children. I just want to be a mother to my kids."
— Richard Chin
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