State v. Amsden

¶ 1. Defendant appeals convictions on charges of disorderly conduct and cruelty to a child stemming from her four-year-old son’s exposure to dangerous and unsanitary conditions under a bridge and defendant’s disruptive behavior inside a hospital. We affirm both convictions as legally sound and supported by the evidence.

¶ 2. The facts, including relevant testimony from the one-day bench trial, may be summarized as follows. In- September 2010, police went in response to a tip to a Brattleboro- bridge to perform a welfare check on a four-year-old child. Under the bridge, police discovered…