Imperial Mom, Sherrie Gavan, Gets Probation for Attacking Son's Drug Dealer

A mom convicted in May of beating up her son's drug dealer witha bat in 2011 was sentenced to probation.

Sherrie Gavan's love for her son outweighed the consequences of taking the law into her own hands.

Gavan admitted to hitting Josh Loyd with a baseball bat. She said she did it because Loyd supplied her son Clayton with heroin, and hounded him to keep using even after he quit.

Jefferson County Judge Timothy Miller said Gavan took the law into her own hands when she struck her son’s alleged heroin supplier with a baseball bat in December 2011.

Still, he gave Gavan two years’ probation and a suspended imposition of sentence, a slap on the hand for said assault, according to STLtoday.com, which also reports as long as Gavan does not violate the terms of her probation, a conviction won’t go on her record.

When asked if she regretted her actions, she said she doesn't regret her son still being alive.

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