Click here for updates on this story
NATCHITOCHES, LA (KTBS) — Natchitoches Parish sheriff’s detectives have arrested the mother of the child involved in the child abuse investigation in Goldonna according to Natchitoches Parish Sheriff Stuart Wright.
Casey Smedley, 28, was booked into the Natchitoches Parish Detention Center on a charge of felony cruelty to a juvenile. She is held without bond.
Smedley was arrested following a search of a residence in Goldonna. That’s also where detectives arrested Joseph Hines Sunday night. He’s also charged with cruelty to a juvenile and held in the detention center without bond.
State Department of Children and Family Services case workers removed the child from the home Monday afternoon.
While interviewing Smedley, she admitted to detectives that she participated by recording incidents involving her daughter and forwarding the videos to another unnamed person. Smedley did not stop the alleged abuse, Sheriff Stuart Wright said.
Additional details will be released during criminal proceedings.
Detectives said the investigation is ongoing and further arrests are possible.
“Our detectives are committed to conducting an impartial investigation, that will follow the facts and evidence in this case to be presented to the District Attorney, not based on hearsay or rumors,” Wright said.
Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo. If you share the same market as the contributor of this article, you may not use it on any platform.
Regulators authorized AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine for use in adults throughout the European Union on Friday, amid criticism the bloc is not moving fast enough to vaccinate its population.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former FBI lawyer was sentenced to probation for altering an email that the Justice Department relied on during its surveillance of an aide to President Donald Trump during the Russia investigation.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers lashed out Friday at rival Republicans who tried to repeal his statewide mask mandate, saying killing the order would be a ridiculous move comparable to abolishing speed limits.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — As some conservatives in South Carolina celebrated getting a bill that would ban almost all abortions in the state past a legislative barrier and likely becoming law, they said they are not finished trying to end all abortions.
A Moscow court on Friday put the brother and several allies of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny under house arrest for two months as authorities sought to stymie more protests over the jailing of the top Kremlin foe.