
If you’ve ever had a child stay at the hospital, you know that your first priority is making sure they’re well enough to leave and come back home where they can be comfortable in familiar surroundings. But for a couple in Evansville, Indiana, that wasn’t the case.
They refused to retrieve their teenage daughter from the hospital after she suffered from an alleged mental break and checked herself in. Instead, they left her there for six hours.
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The child admitted herself to the hospital after a physical altercation with her mother, Yahoo News reported. During the melee, the child bit her mother, Amanda Osmon. The girl found her own way to the hospital for a mental health evaluation. Once her visit was over, hospital staff attempted to make contact with both Osmon and the girl’s stepfather, Jeffrey Scheda. There was no answer.
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Eventually, hospital staff reached Osmon around 10 p.m., and the conversation was heated. There was an argument about who would come and pick the girl up. During the conversation, Osmon allegedly told staff, “I’m not dealing with this s— tonight.” Then, she hung up the phone.
Police got involved and made contact with Osmon and Scheda at their home. Osmon told officers that the hospital didn’t tell her that her daughter was discharged until 2:52 a.m., but she was unable to provide proof. There are reports that both parents had gotten drunk and passed out during the time their daughter was at the hospital.
According to Wide Open Country, both Osmon and Scheda believed their 13-year-old daughter would be kept in the hospital overnight. They said this was not the first time she had been admitted. Both Osmon and Scheda were arrested. They face charges of neglect of a dependent. They were taken to the Vanderburgh County Jail, but have since been released.