PHOTOS: Mother And Her Three Children Strip Naked In Public

A woman who stripped naked
along with three of her children
outside a high school has blamed
the psychotic episode on an
adverse reaction to medication she
was taking.
Sara Butler's lawyer said conflicting
medications for lupus led the 44-
year-old mother to think the world
was ending.
On the morning of March 16, Butler
drove to Upper Darby High School
with her two adult daughters,
Joanne, 23, and Bessie, 22, plus a 14-
year-old son.
She had wanted to pick up another
child, but the student wasn't
released because - although Butler
was the child's biological mother -
she was not the custodial parent.
'During this psychotic episode, Miss
Butler thought that basically the
world was coming to an end, so she -
caring for her family - decided to
bring all of her children together,'
said her attorney Sharmil McKee.
School district security ordered the
family off the property, but they
returned three more times, reports
Delco Times. The last came at about
1 p.m., when they arrived in a van
and stripped between two parked
vehicles in the parking lot.
'In order to please the Lord, Miss
Butler felt that she needed to exit the
world in the same manner that
Adam and Eve entered the world,
and to do so she needed to be
naked,' said McKee.
'When police got there, they were in
a van and locked their arms in
defiant protest,' said Upper Darby
police Superintendent Michael
Chitwood.
'They were chanting, "Jesus is Lord."
When we got them back to the police
station we gave them their clothes
and the mom refused to put her
clothes on.'
Sara Butler does not have any
underlying psychological problems
and has never been in trouble with
the law before, said McKee. She is
currently seeing a therapist, who has
discontinued the medication that
triggered the episode.
McKee said the family had never
seen their mother act that way
before, but is now familiar with what
a psychotic break looks like. All three
women apologized and promised
that the episode will not be
repeated.
'I regret what happened that day and
it will never happen again,' Sara
Butler said.
Butler and her adult daughters
pleaded guilty to indecent exposure
and disorderly conduct, for which
they each received one year of
probation and were ordered to stay
away from the high school.
Sara Butler also entered an open
plea to simple assault and corrupting
the morals of a minor, for which she
was given a concurrent probationary
sentence and ordered to pay a $500
fine.