KVBC-TV
updated 1:31 p.m. ET, Mon., Oct.
6, 2008
Bullhead City (Ariz) -A local mother is facing several child abuse charges after her 3-year-old son was flown to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas.
At approximately 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 1st, a woman inside Wal-Mart called police to report a suspected child abuse after seeing a little boy with bruises all over his face and body. The woman caller sounded very distraught while talking to dispatch about what she had seen.
Police responded to Wal-Mart and observed a boy slumped over in a shopping cart basket with bruises all over his body, dried blood around his mouth, marks around his wrists (consistent of being tied up) and was unresponsive to questions.
Fire Paramedics transported the 3-year-old boy to Western Arizona Regional Medical Center because he was dehydrated and malnourished. While police were at the hospital, several nurses were emotional and crying over the boy's injuries. One hospital staff member told police that the boy had asked her if she was going to tie him up.
After further investigation, detectives discovered the boy's mother, 25-year-old Mitzie Dawn Hadsall, had physically abused her son, would deny him food and water for several days and lock him in a closet as a form of punishment. The boy also slept locked inside the closet. Hadsall was arrested for aggravated assault, child neglect and endangerment.
Two of Hadsall's roommates, 50-year-old Eleanor Ruth Hawes and 23-year-old Austin Lee Hildenbrand, were also arrested in connection with this case. Hawes was arrested for endangerment and Hildenbrand was arrested for failing to report child neglect.
Child Protective Services will take care of the 3-year-old child victim after he is released from Sunrise Hospital. The boy is currently listed in stable condition.
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Comments: 15
I hope this boy goes to a good family & never has to go back to his mother.
Now what will happen the the female?! Nothing! Can't something really serious be done?! Yes but then someone would holler that it is inhumane.
I hope to God this woman goes to prison.......let the prisoners find out who she is and what she's done.........they WILL see that justice is done!!!!!
This is why we must pay attention and think about such things even when it is not pleasant to do so! This is why we must pray! Evil can only be stopped once and for all by good.