10 years hard labor on child cruelty conviction by JDC

A Jeanerette woman was sentenced to 10 years at hard labor on a cruelty to a juvenile conviction.
Roxanne Rivers, 28, was sentenced Tuesday by 16th Judicial District Judge Paul deMahy to 10 years at hard labor.
Rivers will serve five years in jail then be placed on supervised probation after her release for a period of five years. Special conditions of her probation include she has no custody nor unsupervised visitation with any child under the age of 18, including her own children.
In January 2011, Rivers’ five-month-old daughter was transported by helicopter to Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans and diagnosed with non-accidental traumatic head injury, formerly known as Shaken-baby syndrome.
On July 12, 2012, Rivers confessed to detectives with the St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office that while her baby was strapped in its car seat, she shook the baby at least three times because her baby would not stop crying.
The victim is now in the custody of her paternal grandmother.