State v. Noffsinger

TIMMONS-GOODSON, Judge.

On 12 April 1997, an emergency medical technician and volunteer ambulance driver, Shannon Parks (“Parks”), answered a call to transport a fifteen month-old child, David Cody Rhinehart (“the child”), to the emergency room of Columbia Brunswick Hospital. The mother of the child, Robyn Lynn Noffsinger (“defendant”), and her boyfriend, David Tripp, Jr. (“Tripp”), transferred the child from their vehicle to the ambulance. At the hospital, Parks observed bruises on the child and believed that he was barely breathing. Parks saw defendant and Tripp outside the emergency room,…