Mother in custody after 1-year-old girl allegedly thrown from moving car

HIALEAH, Fla. (WFOR) – Police in South Florida are investigating a suspected case of child abuse after a 1-year-old girl was reportedly thrown from a moving car.

It was not immediately clear who threw the child from the car, but some of what happened next was captured on video.

A Good Samaritan was filmed holding one-year-old Cassidy Mills in his arms.

It was Thursday evening, 8:30 p.m., when a passerby found the child alone, crying and injured on a street in Hialeah.

She tried to call 911. While she was speaking to a dispatcher, police say the child's mother, Taashay Mills, drove up in a car and forcibly took her daughter away from the woman.

Police responded to Northwest 54th Street and 37th Avenue, where the incident occurred.

“We received a call that a one-year-old child was thrown from a moving car,” said Officer Scarlett Hernandez of the Hialeah Police Department. “The witness who saw it was behind them. She saw a child lying on the ground physically injured. She picked the child up. She went to a safer location off the road where she tried to help her and call 911.”

The mother left the scene with her daughter, prompting the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to file a missing person report and request assistance in locating the child, who was wearing a pajama shirt and shorts, had braided hair and had abrasions on her forehead and above her left eye.

Officers also asked for help in locating the 29-year-old mother and the red 2016 Chevrolet Malibu they were in.

Police checked her last known address in northwest Miami-Dade.

After a 15-hour search, police said they found the mother in Miramar and her daughter Cassidy in Opa Locka.

The child was taken to a hospital.

“This will not be tolerated in our city,” Hernandez added.

Hialeah police said the mother is in custody and faces possible charges of child abuse and neglect.

As for the child, the mother's grandparents say little Cassidy will be fine.

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