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A woman has been arrested and accused of failing to seek help for a 2-year-old child who showed signs of physical and sexual abuse.

Jacqueline Nicole Hurst, 35, was charged with child neglect.

An examination showed the boy’s head, face and private area was bruised. He also had a hand print on the left side of his chest, and his buttocks had a laceration, according to an arrest affidavit.

An employee at The Children’s Advocacy Center told sheriff’s Detective Craig Evans the child has signs of sexual and physical abuse, including blood on the boy’s diaper, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Hurst told Evans that Larry Gene Stevens told her the boy fell from the crib. She said she was at work at the time and Stevens refused to send her any pictures. She said he told her the child was fine. She said when she got home, she checked the child and he was asleep and covered in urine.

Hurst said when she saw the child’s injuries, she ran outside and screamed for someone to call 911. She said Stevens told her to calm down and he refused to call 911. Hurst said she was afraid to leave, so she stayed with the child until the next morning. She said she took the child to work so she could call 911.

Evans interviewed a man who lives at the residence with Hurst and Stevens, and he said he heard them arguing. He told the detective they argued frequently so it did not bother him. The man said he did not hear Hurst tell Stevens to call 911 or her yelling for help. He also said she never asked him for help, according to the affidavit.

The detective visited Hurst’s former job. Employees said she drove the child to work on the day in question and left the boy in the vehicle with the engine running for about 20 to 30 minutes. One employee told Evans that when they saw the child’s injuries, he threatened to call 911.

When paramedics arrived, the employees said she argued with them, saying she would take the child to the hospital herself. Paramedics eventually took the child to the hospital.

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Well she got it right by taking her little boy to with her the next day. She owes her colleagues a big thank you, because it looks the paramedics and police cars but its really support, and i hope she can see it that way.
 
No one is being prosecuted for physically and sexually abusing a 2-year-old boy in August 2018, but the woman who failed to promptly seek help for him will serve three years of probation.

Jacqueline Hurst, 36, pleaded no contest to child neglect, a third-degree felony, and the judge withheld an adjudication of guilt.

Under the plea agreement, Hurst cannot have with contact the victim and will not contest the state’s review concerning termination of parental rights. She also must submit to a DNA test and random drug screening and serve 100 hours of community service.

Marion County sheriff’s deputies had been called to a local hospital about an injured child in August 2018.

The then-2-year-old boy’s head, face and private area were bruised, and there was a hand print on the left side of his chest, deputies said at the time. The boy’s buttocks were lacerated. Deputies said the boy had signs of sexual and physical abuse, including blood on his diaper.

Hurst said Larry Gene Stevens, now 39, had told her the boy had fallen from the crib, according to MCSO.

She said she was at work at the time and Stevens refused to send her any pictures.

Stevens told her the child was fine, she said. When she got home, she checked the child and he was asleep and covered in urine, according to MCSO reports.

Authorities did not disclose the relationships between the boy, Hurst and Stevens.

Hurst told deputies that, when she saw the child’s injuries, she ran outside and screamed for someone to call 911. But Stevens told her to calm down, she said, and he refused to call 911.

Hurst said she was afraid to leave but stayed with the boy until the next morning and took him to work so she could call 911.

Stevens was eventually arrested on charges of aggravated child abuse and sexual battery. He denied abusing the boy.

Prosecutors later dropped the charges against Stevens, citing insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Stevens was the person who caused the boy’s injuries. There were other people in the residence who could have had unsupervised access to the victim during the time he was injured.

Also, without DNA evidence, a witness or an admission, a conviction at trial was considered unlikely.
 
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I am so relieved that the plan is to terminate her rights.

I hate that she got a plea deal but she could have held up permanency and had visitation with this child otherwise.
 
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