UPDATE 1:30 P.M.

OUR SOURCES HAVE INDICATED THAT SHE’S BEEN RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL AS OF THIS AFTERNOON. MORE AS WE GET IT, KEEP WATCHING.

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FLORA—The details are few, but we have confirmed that the girl who was the victim of an alleged home invasion and battery this past Saturday (June 1) was hospitalized this morning.

However, what we have learned is that it had nothing to do with the injuries sustained in the incident this past Saturday.

We have also learned that it’s been determined, at Clay County Hospital, that Melody Hagen-Flood, 21, was determined to not be “on” anything.

The alleged pummeller, Rhonda Sturm

Sources are telling us that the situation may be that the incident—and the multiple Orders of Protection filed against HER in the wake of it, by the alleged perpetrator(s)—has taken a toll on the young woman, who is about 5 months post-partum with her first child, a kind of delicate time in a female’s life.

We’re still working to learn exactly what’s going on, and all in the middle of the deadline for the next issue…in which this story will feature prominently, as it appears that there’s a lot of dysfunction going on in Flora and Clay County, and it’s now bleeding over into the court system and tying up resources and time that could be better spent on things like real crime…including the alleged battery the woman received when one Rhonda Sturm, shown at left, was alleged to have burst into Flood’s trailer this past Saturday and pummeled the girl with her fists, all in an effort to get to a little 6-year-old boy, whose father (Flood’s husband) was having court-ordered and pre-scheduled visitation with.

No charges have been filed in the incident, and this, we’re being told, might be what’s getting to Melody.

If anything changes, we’ll bring it here, but in the meantime, be sure you get your online membership so you can read the story in full on Monday night, June 10, at about 9 p.m. on the e-Edition; the print version will be on stands in Clay County the next day, Tuesday, June 11, so if you don’t have an e-Edition by then, you can pick up the hard copy to keep for posterity…as this story isn’t likely to go away any time soon.