Lisa Marie Waldron (L) and Anthony Michael Waldron (R) (Mug shots: Oswego County Sheriff’s Office)
Lisa Marie Waldron, 43, must spend two decades in prison for killing her disabled son, Jordan Brooks, 17.
An Oswego County court staff told Law&Crime that she was sentenced Thursday morning to 20 years in a state prison and five years of post-release supervision for a count of first-degree assault. She will spend less time behind bars for the homicide charge of second-degree manslaughter — five to 15 years in prison. The sentences will run concurrently.
As previously reported, Waldron had pleaded down from a case for second-degree murder. Prosecutors in New York state said she and her husband Anthony Waldron, 46, brutally neglected Brooks, who lived with cerebral palsy.
The staffer did not have information about the related federal case. A judge in the Northern District of New York sentenced Waldron to two years in federal prison earlier this month because the defendant bilked the Social Security Administration of money by collecting her dead son’s benefits as if he were still alive.
Anthony Waldron, 46, Jordan’s stepfather, is scheduled to start trial next month for the second-degree murder case. His attorney, Salvatore Lanza, showed no signs of balking.
“There will be no plea bargain. None,” the lawyer told local outlet Oswego County News Now in a July report.
According to federal prosecutors in a sentencing memo against the mother, bed sores covered a large area of Brook’s body, and the autopsy photos revealed metal implants protruding from his skin. He would sit for days in soiled diapers, authorities said. At a doctor’s appointment on Sept. 1, 2020, he weighed in at 114 pounds, but when he died on May 9, 2021, he was only 55 pounds. He lost more than half his weight in eight months.
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Brooks previously revealed that he once spent 11 days in his wheelchair without being put to bed, authorities said.
After he died, his mother collected Social Security money meant for his care. Authorities said she had been misusing that cash even when he lived. She used the income at places like Victoria’s Secret, a Rent-A-Center, and the popular vacation city of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
“In the months following Jordan’s death, many who knew him mourned, but the defendant [Lisa Waldron] was not one of them,” federal prosecutors said.
Oswego County Senior Assistant District Attorney Courtney Venditte also characterized Waldron as remorseless.
“Pseudo acceptance of responsibility, couched by excuses, couched by blaming other people,” Venditte said, telling the court on Thursday that Waldron acted like the victim in the case, according to Syracuse.com.
Lisa Waldron reportedly did not speak in court on Thursday. Her attorney, Joseph G. Rodak, who represented her in federal and state court, has argued that she had become overwhelmed when the COVID-19 pandemic shook up her life.
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