Texas man sentenced to 180 days in jail for drugging wife's drinks ...
Mason Herring, 39, an attorney from Houston, Tx, pled guilty to attempting to murder his wife’s unborn child by slipping the abortion drug, misoprostol, into her drink multiple times. Fortunately, the unborn child and mother both survived. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison. The crime occurred in February of 2022. He pled guilty in February of 2024 and is just now getting sentenced.
In February 2024, we reported that Mason Herring, a Houston attorney, had pleaded guilty to injury to a child and assault of a pregnant woman. 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.
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
