Defendant Ferguson Describes Day of Beatings

By Micaela Parker
Observer-Dispatch
July 1, 2016

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Sarah Ferguson was suspicious of her teen brothers. A younger sister "alluded" that they sexually abused her when she was a child and Ferguson grew concerned for the safety of her four young children in the Clayville house they all shared, she testified Friday.

By MICAELA PARKERmparker@uticaod.com

UTICA – Sarah Ferguson was suspicious of her teen brothers.

A younger sister “alluded” that they sexually abused her when she was a child and Ferguson grew concerned for the safety of her four young children in the Clayville house they all shared, she testified Friday in Oneida County Court during her trial.

When the teens admitted under questioning to sexually abusing her children, her sister and children in the neighborhood, she was “shocked” and “angered” by what they said and aimed for their groins while she whipped them.

“I struck them on their genitalia,” Ferguson told her attorney, describing the events at an October counseling session at Word of Life Christian Church in Chadwicks. “Was I thinking? No ma’am, I was not. Did I have any intentions? No ma’am, it was a reaction to what I had heard. No, there was no thought process, there was no thought pattern involved.”

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