A battered woman will stay in prison for failing to protect her kids from her abuser. He was released 9 years ago.
By Sarah Kaplan Email the author
September 24, 2015
In 2004, Tondalo Hall was 20 years old with three kids, no degree and an abusive boyfriend.
He regularly choked her, punched her, threw objects at her and barraged her with verbal abuse, according to testimony in court documents. He kept her from her family and friends, even tried to stop her from showing affection to her kids. Whenever it seemed like she might bolt, he threatened to take her children a son from a previous relationship, and two kids with him and never allow her to see them again.
When he seemed to turn his ire on their children, Hall worried inwardly, but outwardly did nothing. She questioned him about a bruise on her sons head, the sound of her daughter screaming from another room, and he explained the concerns away. Finally, when her 20-month-old sons leg started to swell suspiciously, she brought her kids to the hospital. The young boy had a fractured femur and 12 fractured ribs; her newborn daughter also had a fractured femur, seven fractured ribs and a fractured toe.
Not long after that hospital visit in late 2004, Hall and her boyfriend, Robert Braxton Jr., were arrested and charged in the abuse of their children. Braxton pleaded guilty to hurting the infant girl and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, eight of which were suspended. He was released in 2006, according to BuzzFeed News, which profiled Hall last fall.