26-year-old Sagal Hussein appeared in court on Wednesday. This is after an investigation on the whereabouts of her 5-year-old son Josias revealed that the son was already dead in his mother's vehicle. But the cause of his death is still to be identified.
Hussein will be back in court on April 29 for the charges which will be filed.
How it all started.
On January 26, a neighbor reported to authorities that two children of Hussein were outside their house unsupervised. After this, officials started an investigation on the whereabouts of Hussein's third child, 5-year-old Josias.
An investigation starts to roll.
According to the investigation, the boy was last seen by neighbors on November 25, 2019. But Hussein insists that the child was with his father. She also said that she was not able to contact Josias after his father picked him up on January 9.
Since then, Child Protection Services cannot contact the father of Josias because Hussein was not able to provide an address and contact details. Police, likewise, cannot confirm Hussein's statement. Officers also saw many inconsistencies in Hussein's statements. Just like when the police initially responded to the report of a neighbor on January 26, Hussein said that she was only running some errands for ten minutes, but later on, said that she was out for forty minutes. Aside from these facts, Hussein was also not cooperating with authorities. That resulted in Hussein's arrest on March 30.
Along with her arrest was a warrant that allowed the police to search her house and car in Brown County.
Josias' body found in the mother's vehicle.
The search led to the State Crime Lab in Madison to find a corpse in Hussein's vehicle. It was confirmed by an autopsy report on March 31, that the body is indeed that of Josias'.
The young boy, according to her grandmother, was born with medical issues. He was said to be blind and he had been suffering from severe seizures.
A charge will be filed.
The judge gave two weeks to the State to file a criminal complaint against Hussein. According to District Attorney David Lasee, they are still waiting for the report on what caused the death of the child so that an appropriate charge will be filed against her.
Hussein's Mother is appalled.
In an interview with Fox 11 News, the mother of Husein, Amal Ismal, said she was confused as to why her daughter said that Josias was with his father. Especially because Ismal thinks the father of the kids was not caring. Ismal also said that the father of the kids left the kids to Hussein for California and was not doing his part.
Ismal, through an interpreter in the same interview, also shared that her daughter is a loving person and a good person, and she believes that it will never be Hussein's intention to hurt or kill Josias.
The other two children
After the arrest of Hussein, the other two children, who are two and six years old, were initially put under the care of their grandmother Ismal.
But according to Ismal, the two children are under foster care now. Although Ismal also said that the family of the children's father would like to bring the kids to California, something that Ismal hopes not to happen.
