NC - Mildred Chestnut, 23, Brandon Augustine, 24, Charlotte, left 4 month old at hospital, charged with felony child abuse, 18 Mar 2023

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MsMiniSleuth said:
myfox8.com

Body camera footage shows vehicle belonging to North Carolina couple wanted for child abuse discovered in Georgia

Police body camera footage showed that officers found that the keys to the vehicle had been left at the site, along with multiple bags of clothes and cellphone chargers.
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This article describes the type of injury the poor little baby has:

At the time, CMPD officers were treating the case as a missing-person situation but had begun to explore the possibility that the couple could have been connected to the injuries to their child, which doctors believed were linked to someone shaking the child.

The couple was last seen on March 18 in their visit to Atrium Health-Main. Their baby boy suffered life-threatening and life-altering injuries, CMPD said.
 

www.11alive.com

Missing North Carolina parents wanted for child abuse, car found in Austell, police say

Detectives said Augustine and Chestnut not only lied about the injuries to their infant but also abandoned the baby at the hospital.
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AUSTELL, Ga. — A car belonging to a couple wanted for felony child abuse out of Charlotte, North Carolina, was believed to be in, was found abandoned 260 miles away, in the back of a mobile home park off Veterans Memorial Highway in Austell.

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Austell Police confirmed on Friday to 11Alive’s Cody Alcorn that once the vehicle was found on March 21, their involvement ended. That would be the case until just a few days ago when Police Chief Scott Hamilton said detectives from CMPD called him and said new information makes them believe there’s a chance the couple never made it out of his jurisdiction.

On Thursday, Chief Hamilton gathered resources from several agencies and searched the Lawrence Estates Mobile Home Park, where the couple’s car was found. He said they searched by air, on land and even had a boat in the Sweetwater Creek, but there was no sign of the fugitives.

Chief Hamilton said from his understanding, there had been no confirmed sighting of the couple since March 20. He said when the car was found the next day, they did talk to a neighbor who believed he saw a man near the car, but the man quickly ran off. He added that where the vehicle was found in the back of the mobile home park was very odd. He said unless they knew someone in the area, it’s hard to believe they would stumble up on it and then drive to the back of the maze-like streets and run the car down an embankment.
Chief Hamilton said his agency is actively working on the case and assisting CMPD in finding Augustine and Chestnut. He’s asking anyone with information to call their office or Greater Atlanta Crime Stoppers at (404-577-8477)

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Wow what a twist. I remember thinking they had a car accident somewhere and hadn’t been found. It was such an odd story. Go figure it turns out they lied and had hurt their own child?
 
On Thursday, Chief Hamilton gathered resources from several agencies and searched the Lawrence Estates Mobile Home Park, where the couple’s car was found. He said they searched by air, on land and even had a boat in the Sweetwater Creek, but there was no sign of the fugitives.

Chief Hamilton said from his understanding, there had been no confirmed sighting of the couple since March 20. He said when the car was found the next day, they did talk to a neighbor who believed he saw a man near the car, but the man quickly ran off. He added that where the vehicle was found in the back of the mobile home park was very odd. He said unless they knew someone in the area, it’s hard to believe they would stumble up on it and then drive to the back of the maze-like streets and run the car down an embankment.
www.11alive.com

Missing North Carolina parents wanted for child abuse, car found in Austell, police say

Detectives said Augustine and Chestnut not only lied about the injuries to their infant but also abandoned the baby at the hospital.
www.11alive.com www.11alive.com
 
Knox said:
Wow what a twist. I remember thinking they had a car accident somewhere and hadn’t been found. It was such an odd story. Go figure it turns out they lied and had hurt their own child?
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imstilla.grandma said:
On Thursday, Chief Hamilton gathered resources from several agencies and searched the Lawrence Estates Mobile Home Park, where the couple’s car was found. He said they searched by air, on land and even had a boat in the Sweetwater Creek, but there was no sign of the fugitives.

Chief Hamilton said from his understanding, there had been no confirmed sighting of the couple since March 20. He said when the car was found the next day, they did talk to a neighbor who believed he saw a man near the car, but the man quickly ran off. He added that where the vehicle was found in the back of the mobile home park was very odd. He said unless they knew someone in the area, it’s hard to believe they would stumble up on it and then drive to the back of the maze-like streets and run the car down an embankment.
www.11alive.com

Missing North Carolina parents wanted for child abuse, car found in Austell, police say

Detectives said Augustine and Chestnut not only lied about the injuries to their infant but also abandoned the baby at the hospital.
www.11alive.com www.11alive.com
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If I'm reading this correctly, it sounds like they may have tried to stage an accident.
 
This story is strange. If there wasn’t an accident, how did Brandon get the concussion? A car accident can shake a baby quite a bit - or impact can. Maybe they were being accused and it scared them? I feel like the reporting isn’t correct or I missed something. I looked at their FB pages and it looked like this baby is very loved. I know looks can be deceiving but I’m hoping for the best. These two need to come home and sort out whatever needs to be sorted out.
 
MinnyPin said:
This story is strange. If there wasn’t an accident, how did Brandon get the concussion? A car accident can shake a baby quite a bit - or impact can. Maybe they were being accused and it scared them? I feel like the reporting isn’t correct or I missed something. I looked at their FB pages and it looked like this baby is very loved. I know looks can be deceiving but I’m hoping for the best. These two need to come home and sort out whatever needs to be sorted out.
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Unless you have a brain bleed, there's no way to prove, medically, that you've had a concussion. If you go to the hospital and say you've hit your head and you're feeling dizzy or lost consciousness, etc. they'll give you an MRI (which comes back normal) and then diagnose you with a concussion. (Professional equestrian here, extensive concussion experience.) It sounds like in a moment of rage, someone shook the baby, and they concocted the car accident/concussion symptoms story as a cover.

The baby has injuries that can only be explained by being shaken-not a car accident. The use of the term 'life-altering injuries' makes me think the baby will now be disabled for life because of being shaken.
 
No evidence of any crash. Car abandoned.

No evidence of concussion, but good if you need to claim a memory loss.

And no parent, especially a mother, leaves their infant alone in a hospital. I don't care whether they allege flu, typhoid, bubonic plague or anything else, you simply would refuse. And she could easily have worn a mask. And again, no evidence they were asked to leave.

'Scared' and that is why they fled? Yes, scared of the consequences.
 
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