KANSAS–Mom charged with child abuse
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Katheryn Nycole Dale of North Newton reads over her charges Wednesday afternoon in Harvey County District Court. Bond was set for $50,000. She was charged with aggravated battery, abuse of a child and two counts of aggravated endangering a child. Her boyfriend, Chad D. Carr, was formally charged with two counts of aggravated battery and two counts of abuse of a child. Dale’s 19-month-old son, Vincent James Hill, died under suspicious circumstances Saturday. FOR MORE PHOTOS, SEE THE KANSAN’S ONLINE PHOTO GALLERY.
The mother of a North Newton toddler was charged Wednesday with abusing her son.
Katheryn Nycole Dale made a first appearance in Harvey County District Court on Wednesday on charges of aggravated battery, abuse of a child and two counts of aggravated endangering a child against her son, 19-month-old Vincent Hill.
According to the court proceeding, Dale is charged with pushing a fork into her son’s mouth, causing cuts to the inside of his mouth on March 25. The complaint also said Dale struck her son in the face.
The complaint said she left her son in situations in which someone else could cause him bodily harm on March 25 and again on Saturday, the day he died.
Dale’s boyfriend, Chad Carr, made a first appearance Tuesday in Harvey County court on two counts of aggravated battery and two counts of abuse of a child.
The boyfriend was allegedly home alone with the child while his mother was at a baby shower when the boy was allegedly beaten to death.
Although the cause of death has not been released pending the completion of the autopsy report, Harvey County Attorney David Yoder said the injuries to the child were grievous.
The child’s leg with twisted unnaturally to the point it was broken. He had cuts in his mouth, an eye swollen shut, fingernails ripped out, a fractured collar bone and bruises from his head to his toes.
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