09-22-2014, 12:48 PM
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Talk about being hard on kids. This woman/thing forced her granddaughter to run nonstop for punishment.
Quote:GADSDEN, Alabama -- The Gadsden Times is reporting that the trial of Joyce Hardin Garrard, accused of running her 9-year-old granddaughter to death in 2012, has been pushed back to next year.
A capital murder trial for Garrard, 49, was scheduled to start Sept. 22. Circuit Judge William Ogletree issued an order moving the trial to February due to "discovery and procedural issues," the paper reports.
Garrard is accused of capital murder in making Savannah Hardin, her 9-year-old granddaughter, run around their Etowah County home for about three hours for lying about eating a candy bar. The girl collapsed and died three days later.
The girl's stepmother, Jessica Mae Hardin, faces a charge of murder. Both women say they are innocent.
Earlier this year, Robert Lee Hardin, the child's father, filed suit against Gadsden Regional Medical Center, alleging a doctor and nurse did not properly diagnose and treat the child when she was brought in Feb. 17, 2012.