Woman charged with child abuse in January incident

Enid News & Eagle - 7/4/2017

July 04--A 46-year-old Enid woman was charged last week with felony child abuse and a warrant issued for her arrest.

Shannon Lynn Dalrymple face a possible sentence of up to life in prison to a year in county jail and/or a fine of $500 to $5,000 on the charge.

Online court records show the charge against Dalrymple was filed Friday and bond on the warrant for her arrest was set at $10,000.

On Jan. 19, Enid Police Department officers were sent to Millennium Community Services, 309 W. Cherokee, in reference to Dalrymple threatening to kill herself, according to an affidavit filed in the case. Officers arrived and spoke with a woman who said Dalrymple said she'd been involved in an altercation with her 4-year-old daughter about 9 p.m. the night before.

The woman said Dalrymple told her she had gotten really mad at her daughter and threw her across the room, according to the affidavit. The woman said Dalrymple told her she grabbed her daughter by the shoulders and shook her again. The woman said Dalrymple told her she was screaming at her daughter and threw her again.

The woman said she told Dalrymple that she had to report the incident to police, according to the affidavit. She said Dalrymple became upset and said, "I'll leave right now and kill her and then myself." Dalrymple stated this was not the first time she'd had an altercation with her daughter.

Officers spoke with Dalrymple, who said she came to Millennium because she needed help, according to the affidavit. Officers asked why she needed help and Dalrymple said she was upset with her former in-laws because they keep calling her and asking her for money.

Officers asked Dalrymple about the incident involving her daughter. Dalrymple said she and her daughter were playing on SnapChat and she had told her daughter to wait for the program to load, according to the affidavit. Dalrymple said her daughter became impatient and began pressing the buttons on the phone. Dalrymple said she yelled at her daughter and picked her up and threw her across the room.

Dalrymple told officers this was the only incident that occurred and she only threw her daughter one time, according to the affidavit. She told officers she and her daughter stayed up all night crying and apologizing to each other. Dalrymple also told officers she gets angry when she takes her prescribed pills. A DHS caseworker who spoke with Dalrymple told police that Dalrymple said she had thrown and shook her daughter several times that night.

Detective Nicholas Shackleford interviewed Dalrymple June 13 about the incident.

Shackleford asked Dalrymple if she knew why she was at the police and department and said, "Probably for when I threw my daughter and threatened to kill her," according to the affidavit. Later in the conversation, Dalrymple told Shackleford she is bi-polar and takes medications for it.

Dalrymple told the detective her ex-sister-in-law and ex-nephew had been "hounding her for money," according to the affidavit. Dalrymple said she turned her phone off and that she and her daughter got onto SnapChat after turning the phone off. She said they were on SnapChat and somehow her phone came on and it was her ex-sister-in-law and ex-nephew.

Dalrymple said her daughter cursed while asking why there were calling. Dalrymple said she cursed at her daughter asking her why she was talking like that, according to the affidavit. Dalrymple said she grabbed her daughter by the throat and threw her. Dalrymple told Shackleford she grabbed the girl by the throat, threw her onto the couch and asked her why she was talking like that.

Shackleford asked Dalrymple to demonstrate what she did to her daughter using a doll, according to the affidavit. Dalrymple grabbed the doll around the neck and threw it down on the table.

Shackleford asked Dalrymple if her daughter was injured when she'd done that and Dalrymple said no, according to the affidavit. He asked her if she used both her hands and Dalrymple said she had but immediately removed them both. Shackleford then asked Dalrymple if she'd done this for discipline and she said no.

Shackleford asked Dalrymple if this was excessive and she said, "This is terrible what I had done," according to the affidavit. Dalrymple said she felt bad for what had happened and told her daughter she was the worst mommy in the world for what she had done.

___

Visit the Enid News & Eagle (Enid, Okla.) at www.enidnews.com

Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.