Affidavit: Mom left child in field to die COLORADO SPRINGS, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- A Colorado mother left her 3-year-old son in a field to die after burying him under 4 feet of tumbleweeds, authorities allege in court documents. Nyesha Hall-Gonzales, 28, of El Paso County was arrested on suspicion of first-degree attempted murder and child abuse after allegedly taking the boy into a vacant field Saturday, bundling him in her coat and leaving him. The arrest affidavit states she was then spotted by Colorado State Patrol personnel wandering a highway in her nightgown, she admitted she left her son Carmelo in the field and that he is "probably deceased by now," The (Colorado Springs) Gazette reported. The boy was found several hours later, unharmed except for scratches on his legs. The court documents mention the woman was involved in a divorce, and that she had informed a friend of her plans to kill herself and her son. She was held in the county jail in lieu of $50,000 bail following a Monday hearing the boy was placed in his father's custody, KRDO-TV, Colorado Springs, reported.