ALEXANDRIA — A Cicero woman has been charged with battery with a deadly weapon after she allegedly struck her pregnant daughter with her car on Saturday.
Madison County prosecutors charged Kelly Campbell, 36, with the Class C felony Tuesday and she was taken into custody the same day. She posted 10 percent of her $10,000 bond and was released from jail Wednesday morning.
According to the probable cause affidavit filed with the charge:
Alexandria police were called to a home in the 900 block of West Washington Street at 9 p.m. on a report of a battery. An 18-year-old woman told police her mother, Campbell, struck her with the passenger side mirror of Campbell’s 1993 Chevrolet Cavalier.
The woman, who is 7 1/2-months pregnant, told police she had been visiting her mother in Cicero when they got into an argument. Campbell drove the woman to her Alexandria home, driving into the yard when they arrived.
As the woman collected her belongings from the car, Campbell “stated that she hoped the unborn baby would die,” according to the affidavit written by Officer Joe Heath.
When the woman finished gathering her possessions, Campbell put the car in reverse and “floored it,” according to the court documents, striking the pregnant woman in her lower stomach. Campbell laughed after hitting her daughter, and then made an obscene gesture as she drove away. Elwood police took Campbell into custody, apparently on her way back to Cicero.
Heath said Wednesday the woman suffered scrapes and “significant redness” to her lower stomach from being struck. She was checked by EMTs at the scene, but declined further treatment, he said.
Campbell denied hitting her daughter with the car, Heath said, instead claiming the woman was injured a few hours earlier breaking up a fight between her brother and her sister’s boyfriend in Cicero. Heath said he didn’t know what the mother and daughter had argued over.
The Herald Bulletin generally doesn’t identify alleged crime victims, and the woman could not be reached for comment. Campbell declined comment when contacted at her Cicero home Wednesday.
Campbell has not yet been arraigned on the charge. It wasn’t immediately known when she would make an initial court appearance or if she has hired an attorney. A Class C felony is punishable by a sentence of two to eight years.
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What’s next?
It wasn’t immediately known when Kelly Campbell, 36, Cicero, would make an initial court appearance on a single charge of battery by means of a deadly weapon. Campbell, arrested Tuesday, will be arraigned in Madison Circuit Court.
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