According to a recently revealed arrest warrant, a mother’s wrath over “spilled shampoo” sparked a missing child and abuse investigation that ultimately resulted in her arrest. The woman forced her 1-year-old out of a car on a Hialeah roadside.
According to the authorities, a witness saw what was happening and pulled the toddler Cassidy Mills, who was coated in gravel, off the roadway. According to the police, Tasshay Mills, Cassidy’s mother, pushed her out of the car, turned around, and returned to physically remove Cassidy from the rescuer.
Later, the young girl would be discovered unharmed. Mills, 29, of Opa-locka, is currently being charged with child abuse and neglect. The event occurred last Thursday night at approximately 8:30 p.m. close to Northwest 37th Avenue and 54th Street.
Detective Laurent Salazar of the Hialeah Police Department said in the warrant that the woman who was in the car with Mills and her daughter gave a description of what transpired. After the event, she called the detective, according to the police.
The woman said Cassidy “spilled shampoo on the rear seat,” which is how it all started. According to the lady, Mills “became angry and beat (Cassidy), hitting her multiple times,” according to the police report.
According to her testimony, Cassidy “continued to cry” during the assault, which allegedly made Mills even more irate. According to the warrant, at that point, Mills “pushed (Cassidy) out of the vehicle, causing (her to fall on the asphalt,” by opening the back passenger side door from the inside of the car.
Mills then left, according to the police. They added that the toddler was rescued from the street by a woman and her boyfriend who were behind Mills at a red light.
Salazar reported that the man he spoke with claimed to have heard a woman yelling, “The baby, the baby, the baby!” while driving with his window down. The man then witnessed Cassidy “lying face down in the asphalt” while Mills drove off, and the rear door of the Chevrolet Malibu opened.
According to the cops, he ran outside, grabbed her, and gave Cassidy to his girlfriend so he could go get some wipes to clean Cassidy off. Gravel had covered the girl’s face.
According to the warrant, Cassidy was “bleeding from her head and had trouble breathing,” according to what the man’s girlfriend informed Salazar.
The man reported to the police that he saw Mills “driving erratically” and that he then made a U-turn to go back to the spot while looking for wipes. When Mills stopped, the woman with him told the police that she “took the opportunity to get out of the vehicle with her 8-year-old son.”
According to the police, Mills violently reclaimed her daughter from the man’s girlfriend after stopping. On Wednesday, the rescuer stated that she was “just more in shock than anything” about what had occurred.
The woman said, “I honestly just hope she’s recuperating well.” She asked not to be named. “I thank God that me and my boyfriend were there that night.”
As reported by Salazar, the man claimed to have witnessed and overheard Mills “demanding that (his girlfriend) return (Cassidy) before she yanked (her) from her arms like a ‘rag doll.'”
According to police, the witnesses were able to give a description of Mills as well as a picture of her license plate.
In a letter to Mills, Salazar claimed to have pleaded with her to “take (her daughter) to a local hospital so she could be medically cleared.”
According to what he wrote, Mills promised to drive Cassidy to Jackson North Medical Center, which is located on North Miami Beach.
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According to the warrant, Salazar attempted to do a welfare check at Mills’ previous location in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood but was informed that she no longer lived there.
In order to follow up on Cassidy, Salazar said that he asked Mills for her location, but she refused. He was then informed by a Jackson Memorial Hospital clerk that Mills had not been admitted to any hospital in the system.
According to him, Mills was in Miramar when the woman who was in the car with him at the time of the event told him this. According to the police, Mills was there with a buddy. Salazar claimed that Mills’ Opa-locka flat was the source of Cassidy’s information.
She was found there, according to the police, who then transported her to the hospital for a medical clearance.
Mills told detectives she had pulled over and “removed” Cassidy so she could “clean the seat” and that she had put the toddler “next to her” while doing so in an interview at the Miramar Police Department, some of which were withheld from the warrant.
Mills was apprehended by the authorities and lodged at the Broward County jail prior to her extradition to Miami-Dade. During her Wednesday court appearance, Mills was handed a $7,500 bond and told to keep her distance from her kid.
