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Hours before deputies found 2-year-old Carmelo Ortiz-Hall in a southern El Paso County field Saturday, his mother wrapped the diaper-clad toddler in her coat and a dress, buried him under 4 feet of tumbleweeds and left him to die, court documents say.
When he asked her to stay, “she told Carmelo she had to leave,” according to court documents.
Nyesha Hall-Gonzalez was arrested Saturday on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder and child abuse. In court Monday, she was advised of her possible charges. She is being held at the El Paso County jail in lieu of $50,000 bail.
The arrest affidavit depicts an unemotional woman who assumed she had killed her child hours before he was found healthy and unharmed.
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