Hastings v. State
Indiana Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERTSON, Judge.
Linda Hastings appeals her conviction for neglect of a dependent, a class B felony.1 We reverse.
On April 28, 1988, Linda Hastings' two-year-old son, Jimmy, was injured by Hastings' boyfriend, Richard Kelley. While *666Hastings went to get food for the threesome, she left Jimmy with Kelley for approximately twenty-five minutes. When Hastings returned, Jimmy had suffered a broken arm. Kelley initially said that Jimmy broke his arm when running toward his mother as she left the house. However, on June 4, 1988, Kelley confessed that he had "jerked Jimmy up by his arm" when the boy…
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