Danielle Hale is a free woman this morning following her plea in criminal court yesterday.

After pleading guilty to attempted aggravated child abuse and three counts of neglect of a child under the age of 8 where the victim was her daughter, Hale was given credit for time served.

She had spent 614 days in jail after she and her alleged boyfriend, Zach Crawford, were arrested in 2017 for abusing Hale’s daughter, a toddler at the time. Last month, Crawford was given 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to 18 counts of child abuse and neglect in a child under eight years of age and aggravated child abuse and neglect in a child under eight years of age.

The 20 years will be served at 100 percent meaning Crawford will not be eligible for early release.

Hale, for her part, was placed on probation for 16 years meaning she is still under the court’s eye. She is also barred from contacting her daughter for a minimum of two years. Any contact after that would have to be approved by the court, according to court records.

While it appears Hale had minimal involvement in the abuse that included Crawford hitting Hale’s daughter with an open palm, striking her with a horse’s riding crop and “disciplining” her with his “mouth by using his teeth” and strangling the little girl with such force the capillaries ruptured in her eyes, she failed to stop him when he committed any of these acts. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED – 04/30/2019-6AM)

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