He says it does not make sense because wife Sarah left their two sons, 4-year-old Jamie and 2-year-old Jerry alone in the car at a Thornton gas station Saturday and then wandered away.
"Everything is completely out of character. None of the evidence points to anything in particular," Matthew Hatfield said. "Everything seems to contradict itself in this particular case. Her ID, her debit card, her cellphone, her keys were all in the car."
Hatfield says Sarah left the gas station off 92nd Avenue and Huron Street on foot at about 11 a.m. She called him from National Jewish Hospital in Denver, off Colfax Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, close to midnight.
"She was frantic. She was crying. She said, 'I'm at Colfax and Colorado at National Jewish Hospital," Matthew Hatfield said. "'I don't know how I got here, but I'm here.'"
Their sons were OK.
The 26-year-old mother is now facing charges of child abuse.
"We don't believe there was any foul play or malice or ill intent involved," Matthew Hatfield said. "We do believe it was an underlying medical condition that we were previously unaware of."
He says doctors at Denver Health Medical Center found no traces of drugs or alcohol in Sarah. She's been admitted to the hospital for further testing.
He says the family will be sharing all of Sarah's medical records with investigators.
"There is in fact possibly an underlying medical condition that is causing amnesic symptoms," Matthew Hatfield said. "She legitimately and validly has no recollection of the events from the point she pulled into the gas station to the point she showed up in front of National Jewish. She remembers everything before that, she remembers everything she did that morning, she remembers going to the bank and going to the library, pulling into the gas station and that's where it ends."
He says his wife is a great mom.
"She's a wonderful mother, she loves her boys," he said.
He also told 9NEWS the family is glad to know something is not quite right with Sarah, so they can address the issue.
"As odd as it sounds [it could] be a blessing in disguise," Matthew Hatfield said. "Now that we're aware of it, we can address it and deal with it in a productive manner. If we'd never known, this could've been very different."
Sarah Hatfield goes to court in March.
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