24, 5v, James Duncan Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.)Įliz Jonsons: Jun'r Confession: August: the 11th 1692 before: Jno' Hauthorne Esq'r & others their majests Justices her one the 8th & 9th Instant at night & he afflicted Sarah Phelps, & told her he had been a witch Ever Since he ran away - and that she had a hand in Afflicting Timo' Swan. She confesseth as followeth That Goody Carrier brought a book to her & she set her hand to it - That Goody Carrier baptized her when she Baptized her Daughter Sarah & that Goody Carr'r told her she Should be Saved if she would be a witch - That She had bin at Salem Village w'th Goody Carr'r & that She had been at the Mock Sacrement theire & Saw Mr Burroughs their She Conffesed She had afflicted Severall persons that the first She afflicted was lawrence Lacey & that She & Tho Carrier aflected Sarah phelps & Mary Walcutt & Ann Puttman, the 9th Instant & that She afflicted them this day as She Came to Twone and that She hath afflicted a Child of Ephrahm Davis the 9 Instant & this day by pinching it and that she afflicted ann Puttnam w'th a Spear That She and goody Carrier afflicted Benja' Abbott - That Goody Toothaker & 2 of her Children ware w'th her the last night when She afflicted the children - She also confsesed that one Dan'll Ems of Boxford was w'th. The Examination of Elizabeth Jonson Jun'r Taken Before Dudley Broads the 11 August 1692.
Judge Paul McMurdie said he wished he could design a sentence that would compel Johnson to disclose Gabriel's whereabouts, but could only "sentence her for the offenses she's been convicted.(Examination of Elizabeth Johnson, Jr., Copy ) "I do deserve the maximum, I do," she said through tears. "I'm at a loss because I do deserve the max. "I am brokenhearted over my son still being missing," said Johnson, wearing a striped prison jumpsuit.
In October, Johnson, 26, was found guilty of custodial interference and unlawful imprisonment stemming from the disappearance of her 8-month-old son, last seen on Dec. 7, 2012 — - Elizabeth Johnson - who at one point admitted to killing her son, the missing infant Gabriel Johnson, before saying she gave him away - told a judge she "deserved the maximum" sentence, before receiving a prison term of 5.25 years, half of the max.
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