Minn. boy on life support after suspected abuse

Published 2:08 pm Saturday, September 3, 2011

ANOKA — Anoka County authorities have charged a woman and her boyfriend in the suspected abuse of her 3-year-old son.

Forty-year-old Elizabeth Ann Moorman of Anoka was charged Friday with felony neglect of a child.

Prosecutors say Moorman brought her son to a Coon Rapids hospital on Tuesday. An examination found the boy had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, two collapsed lungs and retinal hemorrhaging.

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According to the complaint, hospital staff told a sheriff’s detective that Moorman was offering various stories on how her son was injured.

Moorman’s boyfriend, 24-year-old Anthony William Urban, is charged with first-degree assault in the case.

The boy was airlifted to HCMC. The sheriff’s office said he was on life support Thursday.

Moorman and Urban remained in jail Friday.