A judge has upheld the arrest of an Anderson woman charged with neglecting her baby.
According to our news coverage partners at the Anderson Independent-Mail, Judge Dan Sharp ruled Friday that the cunlawful neglect of a child charge against 19-year old Ashley Louise Neely is proper.
However, Sharp dismissed a domestic violence charge that Neely faced. He found there was not enough evidence to show that she ran a car at her then-boyfriend, Branden Lee Newton.
Neely told police that she thought the car was in reverse and did not hit Branden Newton on April 21.
Neely and Newton, 21, were arrested in April after her child, who is not biologically Newton's, was taken to AnMed Medical Health Center in Anderson for skull fractures.
South Carolina Law Enforcement Division officer Charity Herlong testified at a preliminary hearing Friday in Anderson County that the child, then 5 months old, was discovered to have skull fractures and pre-existing or healing fractures in the left clavicle, right radius and left humerus bones.
Herlong said the injuries happened between Feb. 11 and April 21, when the child was admitted for the skull fractures.
Neely's attorney, Andrew Potter, said his client had taken her child to the emergency room at least twice between those dates, and no doctors had found anything wrong. The last time, prior to the April incident, that the child was at the emergency room, doctors took a chest X-ray. Potter said that establishes that there was no on-going abuse.
To read more of this article from the Anderson Independent-Mail, click here: http://www.independentmail.com/news/2010/aug/20/judge-upholds-child-neglect-charge-against-anderso/
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