This just makes me feel sick.

BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. - A distraught woman who called police after spotting a bruised and bloodied 3-year-old boy in a shopping cart in a local store is being credited with saving the child's life, Bullhead City police said.

Officers who arrived at the Wal-Mart store found the malnourished and dehydrated boy with bruises all over his body, dried blood on his mouth and rope marks on his wrists where he had apparently been tied up, police spokeswoman Emily Montague said Friday.

The boy was slumped over in the shopping cart and unresponsive.
His mother, Mitzie Dawn Hadsall, 25, was arrested on aggravated assault, child neglect and endangerment charges after an investigation. Montague said Hadsall physically abused her son and would keep him locked in a closet for days while denying him food and water as a form of punishment.

Paramedics took the boy to a local hospital for treatment after he was found on Wednesday afternoon. When police arrived at the hospital, several nurses were crying and a staff member told police that the boy had asked her if she was going to tie him up, Montague said.

The woman who spotted the child in the Wal-Mart likely saved his life, Montague said.

“She thought the little boy was wearing Halloween makeup, the bruises were so bad on his face and body,” Montague said. “She immediately called police for suspected child abuse when she realized it wasn't Halloween makeup, it was bruises.”

Montague said the boy was obviously malnourished, with sunken-in face and eyes.

Hadsall lived in a home with her ex-boyfriend, his current girlfriend and her two young children, and the current girlfriend's mother, Montague said.

There was no indication the other children had been abused, but the ex-boyfriend and his girlfriend's mother were arrested.

All three were in custody at the Mohave County jail in Kingman on Friday, sheriff's spokeswoman Trish Carter said. Hadsall was being held on $100,000 bond.

She made an initial court appearance on Thursday but did not enter a plea.

Mohave County Public Defender Dana Hlavac said his office has not yet assigned an attorney to the cases.

The boy was flown to a hospital in Las Vegas for additional treatment and will be placed in the care of Child Protective Services when he is released, Montague said. He was initially in serious condition but has since been upgraded to fair.

Poor little boy, I just want to bring him home and make him all better. Thank god the woman in Walmart called the police! I would have been crying too if I was one of the nurses and he asked me if I was going to tye him up.

we should all learn from this.
As mothers, if you EVER see something that doesn't sit right with you, TELL someone!

I hate hearing things like this but I'm glad you shared it with us.

I think people like this should instantly be given the death penalty after they are found guilty. I'm not kidding either.

Princess_Longbottom wrote:I think people like this should instantly be given the death penalty after they are found guilty. I'm not kidding either.

the only reason i dont agree is cause i think they should have to suffer. life in prison with no parole, EVER.

I just don't want my tax money to pay for them to have 3 meals a day and a roof over their heads, you see. I think any one who abuses, or molests children should be obliterated from this planet. Children are the most innocent pure beings on this planet, and if you abuse them, you don't deserve to live. Period. I know I probably sound so mean and heartless right now, but I think that in the after life, those people will burn in hell anyways, so why delay it for them?

If someone claims they hurt a child because of insanity, then we really need to re-think our system. Why does a crazy person like this still have custody of their child?

As Lou Lou said, if we think we see something, even if we aren't sure, we need to tell somebody.

Tiff, I couldn't agree more. I have no sympathy for people that hurt others, especially children. The thought of someone hurting Owen makes me sick to my stomach.

dolly's momma wrote:Poor little boy, I just want to bring him home and make him all better. Thank god the woman in Walmart called the police! I would have been crying too if I was one of the nurses and he asked me if I was going to tye him up.

I hear you,thats my thoughts.everytime I hear of child neglect,I am overwealmed with love for the child,I litteraly want to take them home ans show them it's ok and that they can be loved.My son is just a little older than that boy,it brought tears to my eyes to imagine somone doing that to him or anyone!So awful.Tonight I will hug my babies a little tighter and thank heaven that they are ok and happy/healthy!

OMG, that is sooo sad, how can people treat their own flesh and blood this way, i could never harm my child no matter how angry i got with them. People like this dont deserve to have children and the people who do it should suffer the same torment they have put these children thru!

I hope the little boy makes a full recovery even tho he will be scared for life for what these monsters have done

Ya, I see what you mean Penguins, about death being an easy way out. Unfortunately, living torture isn't an option for them, so I just don't think living would really be suffering either. I guess when you are on death row... you pretty much get a life sentence in prison before they actually execute you, since they always take so dang long to actually carry out the death sentence the person received. So even though I am not happy about my tax money being used to keep this person alive for so many years, I guess the suspense of death is torture in itself.

I seriously cannot think of the pain of that poor little boy without my heart breaking. If something would happen to my daughter I would be out of my mind with anger.

Lou Lou wrote:we should all learn from this.
As mothers, if you EVER see something that doesn't sit right with you, TELL someone!

I hate hearing things like this but I'm glad you shared it with us.

That is an excellent point. I will try to make a habit of taking a moment and really looking at kids I see, who k nows what it may lead to someday.