This woman was arrested by Austin Police officers in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, for one of the most HORRIFIC cases of CHILD ABUSE I have ever heard about!
Travis County Sheriff
Inmate Information
Gallardo, aurelia
Date of Birth: 4/6/1984
Booking Number: 0851896 Booked: 10/28 21:50
Arresting Agency: AUSTIN POLICE DEPT
Offense #: A083021619
Facility: TRAVIS COUNTY CORRECTIONAL COMPLEX Building: 03 Unit: F
Charge (1)
Abandon or endanger child criminal negligence
state jail felony — cause number: d1dc08206368
charge authority: new arrest
bond: $25,000.00 any type of bond
She is still in the Travis County Jail. I don't know how much her bail was but it was on TXCN on cable TV Channel 8 in Austin, Texas.
According to eyewitnesses, Aurelia Gallardo (d.O.B. 4/6/1984) of Austin, Texas
PUBLIC SAFETY
Austin police: Mom threw 4-year-old into road
Woman charged with child endangerment after incident at Southpark Meadows.
Friday, October 31
While waiting to get on a city bus with her three children Tuesday evening in South Austin, police say, Aurelia Gallardo beat and berated her oldest daughter before throwing her into the path of an oncoming Sport Utility vehicle, a Suburban.
The driver of the brown Suburban hard - braked and did not strike the 4-year-old.
Gallardo, 24, of Austin, Texas has been charged with child endangerment, a state jail felony, and could face up to 20 years if convicted. Bail was set at $25,000.
"It's pretty outrageous when a parent loses composure to that degree, " said police Sgt. Brian Loyd of the child abuse investigation unit. "We see some bad stuff on our unit, but this is new for us."
The incident happened about 6 P.M. Tuesday at a bus stop in the Southpark Meadows shopping center in the 200 block of Turk Lane, Loyd said.
According to an arrest affidavit, one witness at the bus stop said he saw Gallardo lift her daughter by the arm so forcefully that he thought the girl's arm "was going to dislocate out of the socket." The witness told police that Gallardo then violently threw the girl into the street and pulled her by her hair before throwing her into a parked vehicle.
The witness said Gallardo told her daughter, "You are dead to me" and "You are a slut."
Several witnesses called 911, Loyd said.
Once Gallardo boarded the bus, according to the affidavit, the bus driver said the woman was "yelling every four-letter word known" at the 4-year-old and was telling the girl that "CPS would take her away and that no one would want her."
Police stopped the city bus at South Congress Avenue and Ralph Ablanedo Drive a few blocks away and took Gallardo into custody, Loyd said.
Police have not yet interviewed the driver of the Suburban, who left the scene after realizing the girl was not injured. They were checking to see whether there is any surveillance video from the bus, Loyd said.
"Many parents are not equipped to handle the emotional stresses of a child and what to do in these situations, " he said.
All of the physical or verbal abuse was directed solely at the 4-year-old, he said. The other two children, who police said are ages 2 and 3, were questioned, but Loyd said they were too young to verbalize what they may have seen. A family member said the younger children are 2 years old and 9 months old.
Loyd said all three children are in the custody of Child Protective Services.
Though Loyd said Gallardo has no criminal history, he said he "can't go into her CPS history."
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services spokesman Chris Van Deusen said officials could not release information about any history of child abuse reports at the address where Gallardo has been living.
Neighbors on South First Street said they had repeatedly heard yelling from the house and the sidewalk near it.
At that address, a man who identified himself as Gallardo's cousin, Ruben Davila, expressed disbelief and said Gallardo and her children have been "having a hard time."
Davila said Gallardo had been staying with him and his aunt in South Austin for a month and a half. Before that, he said, she had been living with her children at the Salvation Army. He said Gallardo was under stress trying to find a job and day care for her children.
"She's raised her voice in front of the kids, but I've never seen her abuse them, " he said. "I think this whole thing is just something that got blown out of proportion."
Well, the little girl who was publicly abused and thrown in front of the speeding suv and who was slammed against a parked car — by her hair —in the presence of witnesses — a lot of witnesses would not agree with you, cabron!
Maybe that is how some indios from the third world are raised but this is the united states of america and we do not raise our children like that and we arrest pinche pendejos who abuse out kids like this!
I also do not recall hearing if the father of the abused child knows or even cares what happened to the little girl or even if the little girls have the same father.
This woman is only 25 and has three children! Hasn't she figured out where the children come from or not! She only gets five years total on the welfare anyway and she can't make it a lifestyle anymore.
If she is going to abuse her kids, she doesn't need to have anymore!
This lady has not been tried in a court of law. So her guilt or innocence in the matter has yet to be proven. There may be extenuating circumstances.
This is based on eyewitness accounts from numerous people, so many that they flooded the 911 number that were widely broadcast in travis county news media and published in the daily newspaper of general circulation:
the austin american statesman.
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