Mother Doesn’t Seek Help After 4-Year-Old Daughter Is Shot, Goes Back to Work Instead

Mother Doesn’t Seek Help After 4-Year-Old Daughter Is Shot, Goes Back to Work Instead
Hayesville, Ohio, in Ashland County, where Alyssa Edwards's 8-year-old son shot her 4-year-old daughter. Screenshot via Google Maps
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A court hearing determined that a 27-year-old mother left her 4-year-old daughter at home while she returned to work, after being notified that her 8-year-old son shot the 4-year-old, on March 3.

Alyssa Edwards came home and saw the bullet wounds, and then left the children home alone again, according to WOIO. Prosecutor Chris Tunnell said Edwards was contacted at 10 a.m. about the shooting, came home, checked on the children, and then was back at work by 11 a.m., according to the Mansfield News Journal.
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