Woman who shoved child onto MAX train tracks sentenced to 10 years in psychiatric care
The woman who shoved a child into the MAX train tracks has been sentenced to 10 years in psychiatric review, according to the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office.
Editor’s note: Details in this story and the related TriMet footage may be disturbing to some readers.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The woman who shoved a child into the MAX train tracks has been sentenced to 10 years in psychiatric review, according to the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office.
After the incident, Brianna Lace Workman faced charges of first-degree attempted assault, third-degree attempted assault, interfering with public transportation, second-degree disorderly conduct and recklessly endangering another person. On Wednesday, she was found guilty except for insanity on all charges.
She will be transported to the custody of the Oregon State Hospital.
Workman, now 33, was near a mother and her child at the Gateway Transit Center MAX platform in December 2022 when she shoved the child off the platform.
TriMet surveillance footage showed Workman pushing the child in a pink coat onto the rails, causing the child to land face-first on the metal rail of the track and rocks before she was pulled back onto the platform by bystanders who rushed forward.
After the fall, the 3-year-old child reported having a severe headache along with a red mark on their forehead.
Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Nan Waller ordered Workman to be placed in the care of the Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB) for a maximum 10-year treatment.