MASON CITY – A woman imprisoned in a Mason City jail cell after repeatedly bothering her ex will apparently not be going back to her fancy doctor gig once she is released.
NIT previously reported that 38-year-old Cristen Kern-Hays was employed as a doctor at Mercy One North Iowa in Mason City and that her domestic antics had landed her in jail, accused of a swath of serious crimes.
Kern-Hays’ behavior was so outrageous that a possible victim went to the local court system and filed a civil action for protection against her alleged antics. Police and authorities filed nearly a dozen counts of violating a judge’s protective order set earlier this year, and she had been accused of stalking and assault. She was also the subject of a search warrant.
In the wake of the debacle Kern-Hays created in her life, she appears to be knocked off her perch on the Mercy One North Iowa website. She is no longer listed as a doctor on the site, possibly meaning that her cushy employment there has ended and will no longer be accepting new patients. It would be hard to report for the duty of healing and saving lives when imprisoned in the Cerro Gordo county jail – where she currently resides – for disrupting the well-being of another person. So far, she is guilty of five counts of violating a no-contact order, and each count carries a seven-day jail sentence. Worse, she still faces five more counts of violating the order.
Kern-Hays was last booked into the Cerro Gordo county jail on December 5, 2024, at 4:08 PM, and there she remains incarcerated as her legal woes are played out in court.
