Crime Report: Woman Calls 911 After Sadia Loeliger
Attacks Her, Threatens Her Baby

Terri Lynn Sais testified that Sadia physically attacked her and threatened her one month-old baby boy at Terri's apartment on February 21, 1991. Sais was Scott Loeliger's roommate after Scott and Sadia divorced, and Sais was babysitting 16 month-old Fatima after Scott, then a medical resident, was called in to work. According to Sais:

"Respondent [Sadia] hit me in the back of my head while I was holding the baby. She grabbed Fatima [then a 16 month old baby] who began crying...she said 'I left you alone for a lot of months but I can really mess up your life'...I tried to call the police...Respondent [Sadia] grabbed the phone from me...my one month old son began crying and respondent [Sadia] said 'let's go look at Ryan [Terri's baby].' I was afraid of what she could do so I said no. Respondent [Sadia] pulled my hair, hit me again on the back of my head...Fatima began crying and Respondent [Sadia] but a blanket over her head....I am very afraid of this woman and want her to leave me alone. I was also shocked by he way she grabbed her own child and how she proceeded to threaten and abuse me without any regard for the fact that she was holding her own child.

To view the City of Salinas Crime Report from Terri Lynn Sais, click here. To read Ms. Sais' testimony on the incident, click here.

The incident is also referred to by psychologist Dr. Karen J. Quinn in a report from December of 1994. Quinn wrote:

"There were two episodes of physical violence by her [Sadia] towards her husband [Scott]. She feels these were wrong, but that they were provoked, too....there are affidavits in the court records about Sadia attacking a babysitter at Scott Loeliger's home, and threatening her small baby while picking up Fatima...her violence is apparently confined to her relationship with Scott...Sadia has clearly been beyond adaptive bounds with violence with Scott."

In his Statement of Decision on May 16, 1991 Judge John M. Phillips referrers to the incident on the top of page four. According to Phillips:

"I completely believe or I did the testimony of Terri Sais and the way the police officers got involved and in everything and about the way the confrontation occurred."