Due to allegations of sustained abuse of the mother’s children, including choking, physical assault, and yanking out a child’s hair, the mother and her boyfriend are each facing 29 charges.
The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office states that on August 21, police were called to a residence in response to a claim from Sarah Sorensen that her boyfriend, Kristopher North, had struck and tried to strangle her 6-year-old son.
Officers saw bruising, multiple open wounds on the child’s bottom, scratches all over his body, and red stains on his neck. After being discovered in the home, three youngsters, ages six, eight, and nine, were taken to a hospital.
Since 2020, according to the prosecution, North has allegedly been abusing the kids by “forcing them to do pushups, slapping them when they failed, kicking them on multiple occasions, and choking them.”
In addition, according to the district attorney’s office, North allegedly pointed a gun to the 8-year-old’s head and ripped off his hair, leaving bald patches.
In one case, one of the kids was allegedly hit until they passed out, according to a local news outlet. Authorities were informed by Sorenson that she thought her son had a concussion because “he was not speaking clearly, could not stand up on his own, and his pupils were dilated differently.”
In an interview, Sorenson told a detective that North became mad at her son for grabbing a door handle to get out of their car. The 6-year-old was allegedly told by North to “get in a pushup position,” and when the youngster failed to perform the pushups correctly, North kicked him.
The boy was allegedly spanked by the suspect when he refused to respond to North’s questions with “sir” or “yes, sir,” or when he didn’t have an appropriate response.
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Prosecutors claim that despite the alleged abuse continuing, Sorenson neglected to report it for a number of years.
The suspect reportedly acknowledged grabbing the victims by the back of their necks in an interview with North in an attempt to “show them where they’re supposed to be and what they’re supposed to do.”
Authorities claim that North said, “If they just breathe through their nose, they would be fine.”
On August 29, the district attorney’s office declared that Sorensen and North were charged with eight charges of misdemeanor child abuse and twenty-one counts of second-degree felony aggravated child abuse.
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