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I'm Jackie Howard, an 88-year-old woman arrested for leaving the scene of a crash.

Carolyn Seagrist is driving her Buick and Vision in the parking lot of a Clearwater Sam's Club

when she hits Laverne Hampton's mobility scooter.

Hampton is hospitalized after being thrown from the scooter.

Four hours later, the retired octogenarian is booked for leaving the scene of a crash involving serious injury.

That's a felony.

I'm Nicole Parking. Disturbing news out of New Mexico, a mother faced arraignment this week on charges of child abuse and allegations that she and her husband sexually assaulted

their 16-year-old daughter and her siblings while living in extreme conditions on a sprawling 35-acre

plot of land, which included living in underground tunnels, this according to prosecutors.

Valerie Cordell, 41 from Deming,

pleaded not guilty during her arraignment in Luna County, as recorded in online court documents.

She faces 16 counts of child abuse, one count of criminal sexual penetration,

and one count of conspiracy to commit child abuse this following her arrest.

According to prosecutors, Valerie and her husband Melvin Cordell 50 were involved in an abusive treatment of their daughter coercing her into sexual acts with her siblings in front of other

adults. The six judicial district attorney's office reported in a press release that during a four-month investigation,

authorities discovered that the family of nine was residing in a semi-rule area of Luna County.

Investigators described the living environment as inhumane, like squalers detailing a rundown trailer,

several unusable camping trailers, abandoned cars, decaying food, heaps of trash,

buckets filled with human waste scattered throughout the properties,

while the children were living in man-made tunnels underground.

Authorities became aware of the situation in October and began their investigation after

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