CALHOUN COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Family Dollar employees Kelly Hutchison & Sandra Nicely said the morning of July 7 was a normal shift when an an 8-year-old girl entered.
“The little girl, she came through the store, just walked straight up to us was like, ‘I’m hungry, my mom & dad don’t want me no more, do you have anything I can eat?,’” Hutchison recalled.
The girl told the employees she had not eaten in several days.
“Kelly & I took her to the back & we fed her. She ate cereal, fruit cups, candy, bar, chips, pizza & water while she was here,” Nicely said. “It was sad & really concerning & we wasn’t about to let her leave to go anywhere else.”
The pair then called law enforcement.
When the responding State trooper asked the girl why she was at the store by herself, she told the officer she did it because “Wednesday, July 5, she didn’t eat & Thursday, July 6, she had only 1 peanut butter & jelly sandwich.”
The child identified her father & stepmother as Ryan & Ellio Hardman. She told the officer “her parents told her she had an attitude & when they think she has an attitude, they tell her she’s not being good & they don’t want her ‘this was not the first time they told her they didn’t want her’.
The officer also observed she was not wearing shoes or socks & had only been carrying a teddy bear after walking to Family Dollar.
The trooper then called Child Protective Services.
When the trooper & CPS arrived at the Hardman home, the Hardmans had not been aware the 8-year-old girl was missing.
The girl & her 3 siblings were removed from the home.
The Hardmans were jailed on a $100,000 cash bond on felony child neglect & conspiracy charges.
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