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GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — A Guilford County woman is facing multiple child abuse charges, and warrants include disturbing details as to the allegations against her.
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Sabrina Spruill, 40, is charged with three counts of felony child abuse with serious injury, three counts of assault by strangulation and one count of communicating threats.
Documents allege Spruill strangled and poured hot wax on three children under the age of nine. Arrest warrants say Spruill inflicted bruising to their legs and necks and scratches to their arms.
Neighbor Adan Miranda said he was in the neighborhood Monday night, when he heard something out of the ordinary at the home on Caseybrook Court in Browns Summit.
“I heard a little baby scream, ‘ Help me. Help me. She’s trying to kill us. Oh God,’ and we walked into the dark mobile home, and we see the lady strangling the kids, just suffocating them,” Miranda said.
Miranda said he and a couple of friends decided to act when they heard the screams.
“We put two and two together quick and said we better go make sure there are no kids in there, then we heard kids screaming. … This is the thing about child abuse. You never know if your neighbors are going through it. This is a big wakeup call.” Miranda said.
Another neighbor, Katie Everett, lives on Caseybrook Court but said she was not home at the time of the incident. She said her family came home to a sheriff’s presence.
“All of a sudden, I see a woman get in the back of the car and the kids get in the EMS, and I’m like, ‘Oh no, what happened? Are the kids OK? Did the mom do something?’ … Because those kids have told me that she does things,” Everett said.
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Everett said sometimes her child would play outside with the kids, but they were not close with the neighbor.
“Once in a while, my youngest would play with them outside, but most of the time, when they would come outside, she would get mad. … The kids have told me numerous things about her,” Everett said.
Court documents also say there is an open Child Protective Services sase. In Spruill’s arrest warrants, deputies report that those children said Spruill called them “demons,” threatened to kill them and threatened to light them on fire.
Miranda said that what he saw in the home when he intervened left him without words.
“It was really traumatic to say the least. I don’t want that to take the spotlight away from these kids. They are the real champions of what happened last night. They had to endure so much pain from somebody you want nothing but love from.”
He hopes the children get the care they need, and he says it’s a message to watch out for others. He hopes everyone takes away to stand up for children.
“I will say nothing, nothing, no pain of mine compares to the pain of the kids endured and suffered last night, and I feel like that is the main important topic for sure,” Miranda said. “I’m traumatized for sure. I’m still shaken up. I didn’t get no sleep yesterday. But these kids, they were really abused. They were in a sense tortured.”
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Spruill is being held on a $75,500 bond.