Pa. judge sets $20,000 bond for Erie mother convicted of swinging baby like a bat during fight

Pa. judge sets bond for mom who swung baby

ERIE, Pa. — A Pennsylvania judge has set bond at $20,000 cash for a woman appealing her conviction for swinging her infant at her boyfriend during a fight in 2006.

Erie County Judge William Cunningham set bond Tuesday for Chytoria Graham. She was sentenced in 2007 to up to 10 years in prison for aggravated assault and other charges. She is appealing her conviction and sentence to the Pennsylvania Superior Court.

Graham is claiming in her appeal that the public defenders who represented her at trial were ineffective.

Graham confessed to police that she swung her son like a baseball bat and hit her boyfriend with the baby. The baby has recovered from a fractured skull suffered during the fight in October 2006.

Information from: Erie Times-News, www.goerie.com