Baker Sentenced To 25 Years In Baby Shannon Case
By: Stephen Crews
Updated: November 15, 2010
Circuit Judge Allen Register on Monday sentenced Susan Baker to 25 years in prison for aggravated child abuse, and five years to run concurrently for interference with custodial rights. Chief Assistant State Attorney Greg Wilson brought Baker to trial last month on charges that she took baby Shannon Dedrick from her mother’s Washington County home the morning of Oct. 31, 2009, which sparked the largest search in county history. “Baby Shannon” was found alive Nov. 4, 2009, in a cedar box under a bed in Baker’s home. She was convicted Oct. 1 of the first-degree felony of aggravated child abuse and third-degree felony of interfering with Shannon’s parents’ custodial rights. Wilson asked Register to sentence Baker one year in prison for every one of the 36 hours the state could prove that Baker kept Shannon in that box.
