Glencoe woman gets 5-year prison term for molesting child

  STILLWATER — A 30-year-old Glencoe woman, who was convicted of drug possession in Drumright in 2022, has been given a five-year prison term followed by 20 years of probation for molesting a 10-year-old child in Stillwater in 2023.

   Patience Michelle Sartor pleaded guilty on Oct. 21 before Payne County Associate District Judge Michael Kulling, who ordered her to register as a sex offender when she is released from prison, court records show.

   Although an arrest warrant had been issued for her on Feb. 27, 2024, Sartor was not apprehended until Jan. 22, 2025, when she was ordered jailed on $50,000 bail.

   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,” according to an affidavit by Stillwater Police Detective Chance Whiteley.

   “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 said.

   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.

   “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.

   “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 wrote 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.