Alleged Child Abusers Released from Jail

DAHN LEIDY AND FLORENCIO MENDOZA … BOTH ACCUSED OF ABUSING LEIDY’S ONE YEAR OLD SON … ARE OUT OF JAIL. THAT’S AFTER APPEARING IN COURT MONDAY AND A JUDGE REJECTING A PETITION THAT WOULD HAVE KEPT THE 24 YEAR OLD LEIDY AND 35 YEAR OLD MENDOZA JAILED UNTIL THEIR TRIAL ON CHILD ABUSE CHARGES. PROSECUTORS WANTED THEM INCARCERATED UNTIL THEIR TRIAL.

THE TWO WERE ARRESTED LAST WEEK ON SUSPICION OF CHILD ABUSE RESULTING IN GREAT BODILY HARM AND TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE. IT WAS MENDOZA WHO CALLED POLICE ON MONDAY OF LAST WEEK AFTER HE SAID LEIDY TOLD HIM SHE’D “HURT THE BABY, WATCH HIM DIE … THEN COMMIT SUICIDE. DOCTORS FOUND THE CHILD’S LUNGS AND LIVER HAD BEEN INJURED.

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