By Monica Potts
The Connecticut Post Online
STAMFORD, Conn. — A city woman accused of stalking a friend by creating several fictional personalities and giving her unnecessary medical treatment pleaded guilty in state Superior Court Wednesday and was sentenced to five years of probation.
Jennifer Mardi, 37, of 255 Strawberry Hill Ave., has spent the past 30 days in jail as part of the plea agreement. She received a five-year suspended prison sentence that she will not serve unless she violates the terms of her probation.
“This was a very complicated matter,” said Mardi’s attorney, Christian Bujdud. “Jenn is a very fine young woman and I’m sure, with the benefit of counseling, there will be no further issues in this matter.”
Mardi was accused in December of trying to rekindle a friendship with a Stamford woman named Deborah, who did not want her last name to be used to protect her family, by creating fictional personalities through e-mail and text messages. The fake people included a doctor -- in reality Mardi -- who encouraged Deborah to let Mardi perform medical procedures on her.
Mardi admitted in a statement to police she had administered a saline solution to Deborah, taken her blood and given her shots, according to Assistant State’s Attorney Dina Urso, the prosecutor in the case.
After her release on bond, Mardi violated a court order and came within 100 yards of Deborah in June and on July 10 sat in her car outside Deborah’s residence, Urso said.
Mardi pleaded guilty to practicing medicine without a license, five counts of first-degree reckless endangerment, five counts of third-degree assault, second-degree stalking and violating the conditions of her release.
Bujdud said Mardi faced a large amount of jail time if convicted at trial on all of the nearly 40 reckless endangerment and assault counts with which she was originally charged. Each carried a maximum one year in prison, and violating a court order and practicing medicine without a license each carry a maximum of five years in prison.
Judge Gary White issued a restraining order against Mardi and ordered that she relinquish her paramedic’s license, along with other conditions of probation.
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