{"id":50406,"date":"2025-11-13T00:36:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/50406\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T00:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:36:27","slug":"court-documents-reveal-abuse-allegations-as-missing-bakersfield-child-found-with-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/50406\/","title":{"rendered":"Court documents reveal abuse allegations as missing Bakersfield child found with injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Court documents reveal more details on the seven-year-old who went missing in east Bakersfield back in August.<\/a><\/p>\n

Documents reveal that the child alleged she was being abused by her grandmother.<\/p>\n

Documents said the grandmother, identified as Natalie Sandoval, drove to the school. Her granddaughter was in her vehicle with the air conditioning on. Sandoval stepped outside and spoke with a teacher with the girl in her car. Documents said the grandmother went inside a classroom and \u201cexplained it was common for [redacted] to stay in the vehicle while she runs errands.\u201d According to documents after speaking to her friend for 15 minutes, she walked back to her vehicle and noticed the girl was missing. She called her daughter, the child\u2019s mother, Mercedes Duran.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Arrests made after missing 7-year-old girl allegedly found with injuries in Bakersfield<\/a><\/p>\n

The child\u2019s mother arrived, and both went to a prior residence to search and drove back to the school to talk to a faculty member to request video surveillance.<\/p>\n

The child was not reported missing to the Kern County Sheriff\u2019s Office until 90 minutes after being noticed missing.<\/p>\n

Court documents explained that through surveillance video, the child was seen getting out of the vehicle, running across the school parking lot. Numerous surveillance videos from businesses showed the girl walking on Niles Street.<\/p>\n

Documents said the girl was picked up by a passerby who was concerned for the child’s safety. The woman was interviewed by deputies, stating that the girl looked nervous or panicked. Documents said she was hesitant at first, but the woman assured her she was safe. The woman said the girl had scratches on her face and was sweating profusely.<\/p>\n

Documents said the girl was taken to a relative’s house. It said when they arrived at a home on Monterey Street, a female got out of the home and heard the girl say \u201cTia.” The Kern County Sheriff’s Office was contacted that the child was found.<\/p>\n

According to documents, an interview was conducted with the girl. The child explained she was allegedly getting hit by her grandmother for about a year. Documents said the girl said she was dragged out of the car and she scratched her face. She also said she was hit on her back that day.<\/p>\n

Documents said bruises were found on her back, and her cheeks appeared to be burns.<\/p>\n

Mercedes Duran and Natalie Sandoval were arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Court documents reveal more details on the seven-year-old who went missing in east Bakersfield…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-50406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}