Patience Michelle Sartor (PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Glencoe woman, who was convicted of drug possession in Drumright in 2022, has been ordered to appear in Payne County District Court on April 4 on a charge accusing her of molesting a 10-year-old child in Stillwater in 2023.
If convicted of the felony charge that was filed a year ago, Patience Michelle Sartor, 29, could be given a minimum of a 25-year prison term, court records show.
Although an arrest warrant was issued for her on Feb. 27, 2024, Sartor was not apprehended until Jan. 22, 2025, when she was ordered held in the Payne County Jail on $50,000 bail, court records show.
Stillwater Police Officer Justin Sappington had been sent on Dec. 7, 2023, to a house where a woman said that her child “disclosed a sexual assault perpetrated by Patience Michelle Sartor,” Stillwater Police Detective Chance Whiteley alleged in an affidavit.
“Officer Sappington gathered the clothing the juvenile had been wearing the night of the assault and advised (the mother) we would be in touch in regard to interviewing the juvenile. He reminded her of the importance of not questioning the juvenile any further about the matter.
“On Dec. 14, 2023, a forensic interview was conducted with the juvenile at the Saville Center,” where the child disclosed sexual battery by Sartor, the affidavit alleged.
When the detective interviewed Sartor on Dec. 18, 2023, “Patience sobbed and repeatedly said she was just trying to trick the juvenile into leaving her alone but would never explain what that meant,” the affidavit alleged.
“When confronted with direct accusations, she would softly deny them, but when asked why she denied the accusations, she indicated that people would not understand,” the affidavit alleged.
“In regard to a direct question about what happened on the night in question, she replied, ‘I did a bad thing.’ She told me that ‘nothing happened’ but later made the statement ‘I didn’t want to do anything bad to a kid,’ and that it wasn’t the juvenile’s fault,” the detective alleged in his affidavit.
According to Creek County court records, Sartor had been charged with having methamphetamine in her possession at the Drumright City Jail on May 13, 2022, but the felony was reduced to a misdemeanor on June 17, 2022, when Sartor pleaded guilty to drug possession for which she was given 30 days in the Creek County Jail.
