A judge declined to grant bond Friday, April 22, for an Augusta woman accused of abusing her two toddlers who is scheduled to deliver a fourth child in a couple of weeks.
Kalyn L. Flowers, 28, has been indicted on multiple charges of aggravated assault and child abuse for events that occurred just after Thanksgiving. She has been held without bond since Nov. 27.
Friday during her Richmond County Superior Court bond hearing, Assistant District Attorney Katherine Tobergte said the investigation of Flowers began after the father of Flowers’ small children received a video.
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In the video, Flowers is seen holding a knife to the head and throat of her 2-year-old son while threatening kill him unless the father came for him, Tobergte said. The boy was also dangled over a second story balcony, the prosecutor said.
Then Flowers is seen knocking her 3-year-old daughter to the ground and kicking her across the room, Tobergte said.
“You can see the terror in their eyes, on their faces,” she told the judge.
Defense attorney Siobhan Hughley asked the judge to grant bond so that Flowers could go to the hospital to deliver her child. Her inducement is set for May 4. Flower’s aunt from New York and the 82-year-old grandmother of her husband who lives in Atlanta came to court to speak on her behalf Friday. Flowers is a good person who needs help, they said.
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Flythe asked about the children’s custody and was unhappy to learn that they were living with a relative in whose home Flowers herself had been a victim of abuse. He asked the prosecutor to petition the juvenile court to look again at the children’s well-being.
Flythe told Flowers’ attorney he would help coordinate any arrangements needed for Flowers to deliver her child as scheduled at the hospital.
Sandy Hodson is a staff reporter covering courts for The Augusta Press. Reach her at sandy@theaugustapress.com.
