MOTHER FACES 30-YEAR TERM IN SON'S TORTURE

PURCELL -- A Newcastle woman accused of joining others in torturing her
teen-age son for drug money was ordered Tuesday to serve 30 years in prison.

In all, Jamie Wilson, 40, received 85 years and more than $25,000 in fines
on a variety of charges, but McClain County District Judge Tom Lucas ordered
some of the prison time to run concurrently.

Wilson's sentencing brought to an end an unusual series of courtroom
developments.

After her lawyer indicated he didn't like the look of the jury in her case,
Wilson was persuaded to abruptly end her trial on its second day last May,
opting for a chance at leniency from the judge.

She pleaded guilty to seven felony charges, facing the possibility of
multiple life prison terms.

Wilson's first trial on kidnapping and child injury charges ended last March
when a mistrial was declared because of botched evidence-handling by
Newcastle police.

In the winter of 1995, Wilson's son, Laine Sumner, then 15, was tied up in a
damp well house for several weeks. He was shocked on his mouth and body with
an electric fence charger, pinched with hot pliers and surgical clamps and
burned with an electric iron.

He also was doused with liquid bleach, force-fed rotten eggs and head-butted
and beaten in an ordeal that involved Wilson and her husband, former
Oklahoma City bail bondsman Eddie McCombs.

Sumner was tortured by his mother, stepfather and others who thought the boy
knew the whereabouts of about $32,000 in missing drug proceeds.

McCombs was convicted last summer of torturing the boy and is serving a
65-year prison sentence.

Wilson was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years for conspiracy to commit kidnapping
for purposes of extortion, 20 years for kidnapping for purposes of
extortion, 20 years for causing injury to a minor child, 10 years and a
$25,000 fine for conspiracy to traffic in methamphetamine, 10 years for
maintaining a vehicle in which illegal drugs were kept, five years for
maintaining a dwelling in which illegal drugs were kept and 10 years for
possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.

With some charges ordered to run concurrently, her actual sentence totaled
30 years in prison.

The status of Wilson's infant daughter was not immediately known.

Checked-by: Melodi Cornett