Antlers Resident Sentenced For Child Neglect

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Shawn Erin Hudson, age 44, of Antlers, Oklahoma, was sentenced to time served and three years of supervised release for child neglect.

The charges arose from investigations by the Pushmataha County Sheriff’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

On October 14, 2022, Hudson pleaded guilty to one count of an Information of Child Neglect.  According to investigators, between December of 2017 and February of 2019, Hudson willfully and maliciously failed and omitted to provide adequate medical care, supervision, appropriate caretakers, and special care made necessary by the physical and mental condition of a child under the age of eighteen.

The crime occurred in Pushmataha County, within the boundaries of the Choctaw Nation Reservation, within the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The Honorable Keith Starrett, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, sitting by assignment, presided over the hearings in Muskogee.

Assistant United States Attorney Edith Singer represented the United States.