North Carolina woman charged with murder in death of 4-year-old girl: ‘Senseless violence’

A North Carolina lady was arrested and charged final week with the homicide of a 4-year-old woman, in accordance with native police.

Chelsea Crompton’s arrest Friday got here after deputies with the Catawba County Sheriff’s Workplace introduced earlier final week that they had been investigating the dying of 4-year-old Hazel Lidey in rural Vale, North Carolina, as a felony act, in accordance with a press launch.

Crompton, who’s reportedly a girlfriend of Hazel’s father, was taken into custody at a member of the family’s dwelling in neighboring Madison County and is being held below no bond within the Catawba County Detention Heart.

When officers responded to a name of an unresponsive woman on Nov. 17, they had been at first responding to a reported drug overdose, in accordance with a search warrant reported by native WSOC.

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The warrant additional defined that when EMS personnel arrived, they discovered bruises on the woman’s physique. She was flown to a hospital in close by Charlotte, North Carolina, the place she died 4 days later.

“The kid was reported by EMS to have suffered trauma-related accidents, as a result of presence of bruising all around the physique,” the warrant learn.

Throughout their investigation, deputies reportedly lower out a portion of the wall in the home the place Lidey was discovered unresponsive.

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“Our communities have been shocked by the mindless violence that brought on Hazel’s dying,” Catawba County Sheriff Donald Brown mentioned in a press release. “We mourn with the Lidey household as they grieve the lack of their youngster. Justice for Hazel.”

Mates of the household instructed WSOC that they had been devastated by the information of Hazel’s dying.

Catawba County Sheriff Donald Brown mentioned the group has “been shocked by the mindless violence that brought on Hazel’s dying.”
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“Hazel, she was only a breath of recent air. A gorgeous youngster,” a buddy named Melissa Caudle instructed the outlet. “She was simply pleased. I don’t see how anyone may damage her.”

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Crompton is slated to make her first court docket look Monday.