Overview
- Commissioner Todd Olsen kept Micah Smith in jail and entered a protective order barring any contact with his three children.
- Smith’s detention hearing is scheduled for Dec. 8 before Judge Elizabeth Hruby-Mills, with the decision on release to be revisited then.
- Prosecutors have charged Smith with multiple counts of child torture and aggravated child abuse tied to an Oct. 11 hike on the Broads Fork trail.
- Charging documents say rescuers found the 4-year-old unresponsive with no pulse and a core temperature of 62°F; the child later suffered a stroke.
- Prosecutors cite recent arrests and alleged interference at Primary Children’s Hospital, as well as reports he behaved oddly during the rescue and instructed his 8-year-old to perform CPR.