Jefferson City Woman Guilty in Bizarre Attack

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — A Jefferson City woman was found guilty in the bizarre attack she planned on her husband’s pregnant girlfriend.

A Cole: County jury yesterday found Sandra Kenney, 38,guilty on two counts of first-degree assault. She could face 30 years in prison.

Kenney recruited two men to beat up Naomi Baum and inject her with cocaine and anti-freeze to kill Baum’s unborn baby, who was fathered by Kenney’s husband.

Prosecutors said Kenney was obsessed with getting her husband, who was living with Baum, to return to her.

Janet Lene told jurors she drove Richard Brinkman and Mikel Brice to Baum’s house so they could break in and attack Baum.

Lene pleaded guilty to burglary for her involvement in the case.

Brinkman, who was convicted, of assault during a May trial, testified that he held Baum down while Brice injected her with syringes.

Brice pleaded innocent, to the assault and is awaiting trial.

Baum was treated at a local hospital and released after two days in intensive Care. Her baby was born in March’ without any apparent problems.

Kenney's attorney, Dan Dodson, argued that the attackers were doing the bidding of Lene, who admitted she was a member of a Los Angeles, street gang.

Dodson said the prosecution’s witnesses lied and the prosecution scripted Lene’s and Brinkman’s testimony by arranging meetings between the two.

Greg Kenney testified that he met Baum in April 1996 while attending an alcohol abuse treatment program. He living with her at the tune of the attack He remains married to his wife because he lacks the money to pay for a divorce, he said.

Circuit judge Byron Kinder gave Dodson 45 days to file a motion for a new trial. If Kinder denies the request, Kenney is expected to be sentenced then.