A Hobart woman faces decades in prison after police saw an online video circulating from August 2021 where she abused her then-infant relative, records allege.
Angelica Sailors, 34, was charged Friday with over a dozen felonies.
She appeared in court Monday where a public defender was appointed. Her bail is set at $10,000 cash surety. Her next court date is Sept. 18.
The footage was recorded by a basement camera because the child’s father didn’t trust her with the baby.
Police responded just before 6:30 p.m. Sept. 3 to the 1200 block of W. 3rd Street after they saw the Facebook video. Sailors admitted it was her — and that she shook, choked, and slapped the girl. The child was an infant at the time.
The child, now 4, weighed an estimated 20 or 30 pounds. She has cerebral palsy and cannot walk or talk, records state.
In a police interview, Sailors said as the baby kept crying, she yelled, “Shut the (expletive) up,” as she abused her.
She took the girl to the doctor with “silent seizures” and possible meningitis, but she said doctors “questioned” if she shook the girl, which she denied. Sailors told police she abused her “at least 5 to 10 times,” documents show.
Sailors said she also pinned another relative, now 14, against the bathroom wall and choked her when she cried as a 10-month-old. When the teen girl tried to “intervene” about two years ago as Sailors abused the baby, Sailors hit them both.
A witness told police they recalled seeing the baby shortly after she was born. Months later, the child appeared “generally lethargic” and “wouldn’t move a lot,” making her suspicious she was being abused.
Sailors is charged with two counts of neglect of a dependent resulting in catastrophic injury, both Level 1 felonies, two counts of aggravated battery, two counts of domestic battery resulting in serious bodily injury to a person less than 14 years old, one count of battery resulting in bodily injury to a disabled person, two counts of domestic battery, two counts of domestic battery, two counts of strangulation, one count of battery against a disabled person and one count of neglect of a dependent.
Records show the baby’s father, Mark Tirado, was charged Aug. 20 with child molesting from 2019.
According to the charging documents, police spoke to a 13-year-old girl in 2024 who said Tirado touched her “inappropriately” starting when she was 9.
A witness said Tirado posted Sailors’ abuse video “in retaliation” against Sailors, his ex-girlfriend, after he went to jail.
