An Arkadelphia woman accused of harassment for comments she posted on her son’s Facebook account has been found guilty in Clark County Court.
Denise New, 35, 215 Gum St., was sentenced today to 30 days in jail but Clark County District Judge Randy Hill suspended that sentence with the understanding that New will complete conditions of the sentence.
New was charged with misdemeanor harassment after she posted comments to her son’s Facebook account. During the trial, details about those comments were released and Hill said that he found particularly horrendous a comment New made to the effect that, “the biggest mistake I ever made was to have a child.”
Hill told New as he was setting sentence that “nobody has the right to talk to anybody like that.”
Hill told New that she will be subjected to random drug and alcohol testing for the next year and ordered that she complete an anger management class and a parenting class. Until she completes those classes, she will not be allowed contact with her son.
See full trial coverage in Friday’s edition of the Siftings Herald.
