Mom kept 3-year-old in freezing house until foot became black with frostbite and may need amputation: Police

Amber Griffith mug shot (Marion County Jail) and the home where her son allegedly got frostbite (WXIN screenshot)

Amber Griffith mug shot (Marion County Jail) and the home where her son allegedly got frostbite (WXIN screenshot)

A 28-year-old mother in Indiana was arrested last week for allegedly keeping her 3-year-old son in a freezing house with no heat for weeks, resulting in the child’s foot turning black from frostbite so severe that his leg may need to be amputated. Amber Griffith was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with two counts of felony neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

“It’s certainly a disturbing case that our child abuse detectives are working,” Officer William Young of the Indianapolis Police Department told Indianapolis Fox affiliate WXIN.

According to court documents obtained by the station, Griffith brought her son with her to a hospital on Jan. 19 because she and the child were both experiencing foot pain. Temperatures that day and in the preceding days had dropped into single digits. However, when doctors examined the child, they reportedly found that the entirety of one of his feet had turned black due to severe frostbite.

The 3-year-old went into surgery that day where doctors attempted to remove the damaged tissue from the boy’s foot, but later reportedly said that he may still end up having to have his leg amputated just below the knee.

Law enforcement authorities were contacted regarding the boy’s condition and investigators learned that Griffith and her son lived with the boy’s grandmother and another relative in a home located in the 1100 block of E. Gimber Street.

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