Parents of infant with ‘life-altering injuries’ abandoned at hospital in custody after months on the run
Parents of infant with ‘life-altering injuries’ abandoned at hospital in custody after months on the run Mildred Chestnut & Brandon Augustine. I remember posts about them here from one of their mothers when they went “missing”. Brandon Augustine and Mildred Chestnut (via Mecklenburg (N.C.) County Sheriff’s Office). Inset: Augustine and Chestnut (Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) Police Department). The parents accused of leaving their injured infant at a North Carolina hospital before fleeing are finally in custody after a monthslong search. Brandon Augustine, 24, and Mildred Chestnut, 23, allegedly abandoned their 4-month-old baby at a hospital in Charlotte in March. As Law&Crime previously reported, the couple reportedly said at the time that the child had suffered injuries from a minor car crash. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department announced the arrests late Thursday but did not provide additional details. “CMPD’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Team (VCAT) made two a...