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Mom Gets 50 Years in Prison for Poisoning Son with Cold Medicine: ‘I Will Make You Cry,’ She Tells Dad

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A Maryland mother has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for fatally poisoning her five-year-old son with cold medicine and setting a car on fire with his body inside to cover up the murder, PEOPLE confirms.

Enraged by an acrimonious divorce and custody battle with the father of her only child, Narges Shafeirad, 35, murdered the boy out of jealousy and revenge, prosecutors said in court papers obtained by PEOPLE.

Shafeirad was angry at her soon-to-be ex-husband, Hamid Dana, 53, and jealous of his relationship with his nanny, prosecutors said. Before killing their son, Daniel Dana, she allegedly told him, “I will make you cry. You will be sorry,” according to court records.

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Shafeirad pleaded guilty in 2016 in exchange for the 50-year sentence, NBC reports.

According to the court records, she admitted she had grown depressed because of the divorce and custody fight — and because she lost her job and then the apartment she and the child shared.

“I was a broken woman,” she told the court, the Washington Post reports. “I am still not able to believe that I have lost my son.”

Even though Shafeirad spoke in court, she never explained exactly why she killed her son, said Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Nelson Rupp. “A mother murdering her child is a crime so horrific that it is natural to try to determine why,” said Rupp, the Post reports.

Rupp added, “The only thing that I can conclude is that it was a determination made by the defendant for reasons only she knows of.”

Her public defenders did not return PEOPLE’s calls for comment. She is currently still being held in the Montgomery County Detention Center.

One of her attorneys, Melanie Creedon, said in court that Shafeirad did not act out of jealousy or follow a calculated plan, the Post reports.

“This was an act of a helpless and hopeless, broken woman who had basically reached the end, and who saw no way out,” Creedon said.

‘Poisoned At the Hands of His Own Mother’

According to court records, on June 15, 2015, Shafeirad forced her son to ingest more than an entire bottle cold medicine, even though the boy was not sick. That night, she continued to give him lethal doses of the medicine — which contained diphenhydramine, the active ingredient in over-the-counter medications such as Sominex, Unisom and Benadryl — every two to four hours until he died, according to the court records.

The amount of diphenhydramine in Daniel’s blood was 150 percent of the amount that would kill an adult, the medical examiner’s report states.

Scrapes and bruises found on the boy’s face — particularly around his mouth — suggest that his mother repeatedly force-fed him the medicine, the court records said.

Prosecutors said she tried to cover up the murder by setting a car she borrowed from a friend on fire with her son’s lifeless body stuffed in the backseat on the floor. She did so at around 3:30 a.m. on June 16, 2015 –the same day she and Dana had scheduled their final divorce and custody proceedings.

When police arrived at the scene, they found Shafeirad lying on the ground next to the burning car, screaming for help, according to the arrest warrant.

But the car was locked, with the boy inside.

She told police she and her son were heading to the beach and that she had filled water bottles with gasoline in case she couldn’t find a gas station during their trip. The car caught on fire when she lit a cigarette, she claimed.

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According to prosecutors, she staged the car fire, which authorities quickly ruled as arson. She sustained burns on 40 percent of her body and was hospitalized for a month.

She was arrested about two weeks later, when an autopsy on the boy showed he was poisoned.

Her son was already dead – poisoned by the medicine, when she lit the fire, the medical examiner ruled.

“I think there’s the impression, especially in this case, ‘Well, at least he wasn’t burned to death and he was poisoned to death,’ ” Assistant State’s Attorney Marybeth Ayres said in court, according to the Post. “Well, no, it’s not some peaceful thing where you just fall asleep. . . . Even to an adult, these things would be extremely scary.”

The boy’s father, in an emotional letter written to the judge and obtained by PEOPLE, wrote, “How can a father explain all the loss that there is when he loses his five-year-old son? The worst of it is that Daniel didn’t pass in an accident or swimming pool or some fun children’s activity. He passed at the hands of the woman that was supposed to be his mother. He passed because this woman wanted to get back at me and seek revenge for divorcing her.”

‘I Wake Up at Night with Nightmares’

In his letter to the judge, Dana wrote that he met Shafeirad through his family. After marrying in Iran in 2007, Shafeirad gave birth two years later to their only child, Daniel Dana, according to court records.

The family settled in Gaithersburg, where Dana ran a business selling produce. But after “lots of problems and disagreements,” the couple separated and are now divorced.

While Dana wrote in his letter that he “knew” that Shafeirad was “not caring for Daniel,” he believed it was important for the child to spend time with both his father and a mother. “Now thinking back, I have to question this decision,” he wrote.

In the letter, Dana writes about the plans and dreams he had for his son, such as “fishing, playing baseball and watching movies and cartoons, becoming his first hero and watching him tell me about his super heroes.”

Calling Daniel “my everything,” he wrote that now that his son is gone, “I am a hopeless person walking.

“I wake up at nights with nightmares. I keep seeing Daniel’s beautiful face being forced a bottle of poison. Daniel had a beautiful face but he didn’t like medicine. So I keep dreaming how Narges forced the medicine down his mouth, and that was the last thing Daniel experienced in this world. Why?”

Daniel’s murder, he wrote, “was not a moment of a bad decision. It was planned out of revenge.”

When they began the divorce process, he wrote that he told her that he would give her “a car, the house and pay for Daniel’s needs if she could just be a mother to Daniel, but she said no.

“She told me she was going to make me pay for divorcing her and that was going to make me cry forever.”

[KeymasterKeymaster]

I came across this story last night. I was going to post, but couldn’t. My reaction was the same as yours. I couldn’t even be angry, just hollowed out and sad.

“He said: ‘Daddy, I’m strong. You be strong.’ ”
(that part really got me)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/prosecutors-jealous-rage-motivated-mother-who-poisoned-son-lit-his-body-afire/2017/02/27/a35615ec-fd0a-11e6-8f41-ea6ed597e4ca_story.html?utm_term=.a4a7e3057ef0

She would rather murder the child than give it a life with Dad.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[Anonymous 43]

I was afraid the c~~~ would kill my children.

She was obsessed with a woman who drowned her children in a lake, strapped into car seats. rolling off a boat launch.

This child didn’t have to die. God rot this c~~~ to hell for all f~~~ing eternity.

I want to cry, I want to scream. I want to hug my own kids to make sure they are alright, oh but wait, they are 1000 miles away and if I contact them it will be harassment and I’ll end up in the court, and in handcuffs 30 minutes later.

I can not express how outraged I am, not just for myself and the place I am in, but for this grieving father. Maybe dad was a douche nozzle for hooking up with the nanny, but don’t do the child like this as revenge, wtaf.

[Anonymous 42]

Keymaster wrote:

just hollowed out and sad.

What else do women offer? Hollow, sad, and dead?

[FrostByteParticipant 19005]

Keymaster wrote:

I came across this story last night. I was going to post, but couldn’t. My reaction was the same as yours. I couldn’t even be angry, just hollowed out and sad.

The woman is truly mentally ill. Depraved as a person could be. I hope no pussy pass will allow her to escape justice.

If you rescue a damsel in distress, all you will get is a distressed damsel.

[KeymasterKeymaster]

A few days ago, I watched a father play mini-NERF-football catch with his son. The boy fell and scraped his knee right in front of me and cried like crazy. WAILED! The father quietly walked up to him and told the boy “be strong”…. while holding “strong arm” and two fists. “Be strong” he said a few times – looking him in the eye. The boy just kept crying. Kid was no older than 4 or 5.

There I was witnessing exactly what the f~~~ the problem is.
As early as 4….. a boy’s / man’s pain is of interest to nobody.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22526]

Keymaster wrote:

She would rather murder the child than give it a life with Dad.

Experience has taught me most “modern” women are like this. This is why there is MGTOW.

[Anonymous 54]

Women have been poising Men and Boys through out the milliniums.

[KeymasterKeymaster]

Faust For Science wrote:

Experience has taught me most “modern” women are like this

That’s not even a personal opinion. It is even a law….. a woman can DECIDE to give up her baby for adoption , even if the father is fully willing to raise the child. Another link on “Judge Declares Male Parental Rights Gone” is about a woman who burned her baby, instead of giving it any kind of life with Dad.

Women and the state DON’T WANT men to be Dads.

This is why they must be denied your sperm , and every childless (against her own will) Ashley Judd gives me a Schadenboner. Especially when her sperm-jacking attempt failed.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[Anonymous 5]

Immoral, heartless, cruel, demonic, monstrous, murderer, sociopath, vile, and pure evil.

Why wasn’t the death penalty recommended for this abomination?

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Anonymous wrote:

A mother murdering her child is a crime so horrific that it is natural to try to determine why,” said Rupp, the Post reports.

UNLESS the kid is still in-utero then everything is just hunky-dorry, A.O.K. Right?

Why? because she is a soulless c~~~ end of story.

[narrow road travelerParticipant 1680]

Keymaster wrote:

A few days ago, I watched a father play mini-NERF-football catch with his son. The boy fell and scraped his knee right in front of me and cried like crazy. WAILED! The father quietly walked up to him and told the boy “be strong”…. while holding “strong arm” and two fists. “Be strong” he said a few times – looking him in the eye. The boy just kept crying. Kid was no older than 4 or 5.

There I was witnessing exactly what the f~~~ the problem is.
As early as 4….. a boy’s / man’s pain is of interest to nobody.

I disagree with your assessment of the interaction between the father and his son. The father can’t pour all of his life experience into his son at that moment.

The common bond between them is strength. He can’t communicate in that instant why it’s important to suppress temporary pain and stay focused. The boy’s too young.

In the fathers mind there’s plenty of time to expand upon it. This boys father is the only legitimate authority on the subject.

Too many times masculinity is cut off at the knees from other sources than a man and his son.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. --Sun Tsu

[HitmanParticipant]

The mother who killed the boy is a murderer. .not mentally ill.
The father who said be strong should have picked up that boy and hugged him, sat down and attended to the injury.
Let a child feel their reaction to pain..address it and move on.
.
That mother is going to hell.

[RockmaninoffParticipant 1641]

Anonymous wrote:

Why wasn’t the death penalty recommended for this abomination?

Maryland doesn’t have the death penalty.

". . . elle, suivant l’usage des femmes et des chats qui ne viennent pas quand on les appelle et qui viennent quand on ne les appelle pas, s’arrêta devant moi et m’adressa la parole"—Prosper Mérimée

[GnosticParticipant 2491]

Women are twice likely to kill their children.

Nurturing nature is a lie.
Just because women have to take care of their children does not mean they are good at in. In the olden days most women take care of their children because it is not a mentally or physically demanding job, if it even is they in the olden days it will be most men that take care of their children, not women.

From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services it state domestic violence and Fatalities to children
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/resource/child-maltreatment-2015
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/resource/child-maltreatment-2014
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/resource/child-maltreatment-2013
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/resource/child-maltreatment-2012

Table 4–5 Child Fatalities by Relationship to Their Perpetrators, 2015
Father 14.7%
Father and Nonparent(s) 1.6%
Mother 26.7%
Mother and Nonparent(s) 10.5%
Mother and Father 22.3%
Mother, Father, and Nonparent 1.9%
Total Parents 77.7%

Table 4–4 Child Fatalities by Relationship to Their Perpetrators, 2014
Father 15.0%
Father and Nonparent(s) 1.4%
Mother 28.0%
Mother and Nonparent(s) 10.9%
Mother and Father 21.8%
Mother, Father, and Nonparent 2.2%
Total Parents 79.3%

Table 4–4 Child Fatalities by Relationship to Their Perpetrators, 2013
Father Only 12.4%
Father and Nonparent(s) 1.6%
Mother Only 27.7%
Mother and Nonparent(s) 12.5%
Mother and Father 24.6%
Total Parents 78.9%

Table 4–4 Child Fatalities by Relationship to Their Perpetrators, 2012
Father 17.1%
Father and Other 2.1%
Mother 27.1%
Mother and Other 12.5%
Mother and Father 21.2%
Total Parents 80.0%

There is no magic in MGTOW, just recognition of the truth and logical decision how to avoid dangers. The red pill is but the truth, it is no magical potion. Do not think in this modern world men have no longer have natural enemies, men are prey to women and government.

[BalthazarParticipant 722]

i believe that any woman if given the correct stimulus could be capable of this. they only love the child as they see it as an extension of themselves. they’re that much more likely to commit such an act because the hamster wheel can turn hard and fast enough in the right situation to convince them that they have the right to act in such a way because the child is their possession.

my ex c~~~ told me that she had “unlimited love and compassion” for my daughter in such a way that “i would never understand” on the night she announced that she was leaving me.

previously about two weeks after learning she was pregnant with our daughter, she decided that she wanted an abortion and i had to talk her out of it. it literally takes the f~~~ing baby to grow from the inside out of them for them to care for it at all.

there’s no doubt in my mind that if my ex c~~~ was pushed just the right way for her, she would be capable of such an atrocity. it’s sickening to think about.

This body holding me is a reminder of my own mortality. Embrace this moment. Remember, we are eternal and all this pain is an illusion.

[foghornleghornParticipant 3449]

Never stick your c~~~ into crazy.

[TrapperParticipant 2912]

Holy S~~~!

How can a human being do that to their own? Two words

DEATH PENALTY

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