HIALEAH, Fla. (WFOR) – Police in South Florida are investigating a suspected case of child abuse after a 1-year-old girl was reportedly thrown from a moving car.
It was not immediately known who threw the child from the car, but some of what happened afterward was caught on surveillance video.
A good Samaritan was captured on camera cradling 1-year-old Cassidy Mills.
It was 8:30 p.m. Thursday night when the bystander found the child alone, crying and injured by a Hialeah street.
She tried to call 911. As she spoke to a dispatcher, police say the child’s mother, Taashay Mills drove up and forcibly took her daughter from the woman.
Police responded to Northwest 54th Street and 37th Avenue where this happened.
“We received a call that a 1-year-old child was thrown from a moving vehicle,” Officer Scarlett Hernandez, with the Hialeah Police Department, described. “The witness who observed it was behind them. She saw a child on the ground physically hurt. She picked up the child. She moved to a safer location off the road where she attempted to help her and call 911.”
The mother left with her daughter, which prompted a missing child alert from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and a plea for help finding the child in a pajama shirt and shorts with braided hair and scrapes on her forehead and above her left eye.
Officials also appealed for help finding the 29-year-old mother and her 2016 red Chevrolet Malibu that they were in.
Police checked her last known address in northwest Miami-Dade.
After a 15-hour search, police say they located the mother in Miramar and her daughter Cassidy in Opa Locka.
The child was taken to a hospital.
“This will not be tolerated in our city,” Hernandez added.
Hialeah police say the mother is in custody. She could face charges that include child abuse and neglect.
As for the child, the mother’s grandparents say little Cassidy is going to be OK.
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