WALLACE — A Silver Valley woman changed her plea Wednesday as part of a pretrial settlement agreement on two charges stemming from a 2025 child abuse case. 

Sage Bryant, 25, previously pleaded not guilty in September 2025 to four counts of felony injury to a child, five counts of misdemeanor injury to a child, and one count of misdemeanor assault. 

During a pretrial conference Wednesday, she accepted an offer from prosecutors and pleaded guilty to two counts of felony injury to a child. In exchange, the state will dismiss the remaining charges. The agreement requires Bryant to appear at all future court proceedings and to testify against co-defendant Anthony Banker during his upcoming trial. 

Bryant and Banker, 38, were arrested in early June after Kellogg Police learned that Bryant’s young son had been placed in a medically induced coma at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane with multiple brain bleeds. 

Believing the case fell under their jurisdiction, Kellogg Police requested Spokane Police conduct initial interviews. The Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office later joined the investigation after determining that much of the alleged abuse occurred at Banker’s home in Prichard. 

According to police reports, Bryant told investigators and medical staff that the child had fainted and collapsed after a bath at Banker’s residence on May 16. Law enforcement later found evidence the child experienced multiple dizzy spells throughout the weekend before she took him to a hospital on May 19, believing he had suffered a seizure. The child was stabilized at Shoshone Medical Center before being transferred to Sacred Heart, where medical staff grew increasingly concerned after discovering extensive bruising. 

As part of the plea agreement, there was no stipulated sentencing recommendation. Shoshone County Deputy Prosecutor Britney Jacobs said the state intends to seek the maximum penalty under Idaho law. 

“The state will be asking for those sentences to run consecutively,” Jacobs said. “So it would look like a 10 plus 10, with the first 10 years being the maximum sentence fixed and the second to run right after that with zero years fixed and 10 years indeterminate. That would essentially create a 20-year sentence.” 

Banker is charged with five counts of felony injury to a child and one count of destruction of evidence. Jacobs said Bryant previously testified against him during a preliminary hearing. 

Evidence in the case includes several disturbing cell phone images and videos showing various forms of abuse, as well as text messages between Bryant and Banker discussing the abuse and coordinating their statements before speaking with police. 

Jacobs said the state considered multiple factors when offering a resolution just days before Bryant’s trial, including time and costs to the county and potential impacts on Banker’s upcoming trial. Both cases were scheduled for five-day trials requiring several expert witnesses and law enforcement officers to testify. 

“Because she had decided to testify against the co-defendant, that was a huge part, and because, in her case, we had a lot of direct evidence against her, and unfortunately, in the other case, that evidence is less so without her testimony,” Jacobs said. “In order to ensure that justice was served for this child, that was injured by both of these people, she was willing to take responsibility and enable us to get justice on the individual who we believe caused the most harm.” 

Jacobs also noted Bryant’s lack of prior criminal history as a factor in offering the plea. 

Bryant is scheduled to undergo a mental health evaluation and will be sentenced May 18 at 1 p.m. Banker’s trial, originally set for April, may be postponed to May due to new motions in the case. 

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