A 27-year-old Marana woman was indicted Thursday on charges she smoked a powerful pain reliever while breast-feeding her infant daughter, neglected her three children and stole more than $13,000 from an elderly dementia patient.
Randi Lynn Hall is facing one count of financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, one count of child abuse under circumstances likely to cause death and two counts of child abuse under circumstances not likely to cause death or serious physical injury.
If convicted, Hall could be sentenced to more than 20 years in prison, said Assistant Attorney General Jesse Delaney.
The Hall investigation began when the 85-year-old dementia patient’s family called the Pima County Sheriff’s Department from out-of-state after noticing some financial irregularities, Delaney said.
Detectives from the sheriff’s department and the Attorney General’s Office say Hall cashed checks and withdrew money from the elderly man’s accounts while she was acting as his caregiver between March 1, 2011 and Feb. 17, 2012, court documents state.
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They also discovered Hall and her three daughters, ages, 6, 5 and 10-months-old, had been living in a backyard in the open, Delaney said. The two older children were not enrolled in school and all three girls were filthy and malnourished.
“The baby was suffering from withdrawals when the special agents from the Attorney General’s Office took them into custody,” Delaney said.
It’s alleged Hall breast-fed the baby while smoking oxycodone in a closed bathroom, Delaney said.
The three children are now under the care of state Child Protective Services.
Hall remains in the Pima County jail on $25,000 bail.
Her attorney, Assistant Pima County Public Defender Kevin Burke, declined to comment as he has not yet received the case file.
Contact reporter Kim Smith at 573-4241 or kimsmith@azstarnet.com
