A mom went overboard when it got here to punishing her 7-year-old son for getting in bother on the varsity bus.
Alabama authorities say the 27-year-old mom picked her son up from college on February 8 after he received in bother on the varsity bus and couldn’t take the bus dwelling, Boaz Police Chief Michael Abercrombie instructed McClatchy News over the telephone.
As a consequence, the mom needed to choose him up from college, and that’s when she made him get out of the automotive to stroll dwelling at round 3:30 that afternoon, the police chief mentioned.
He walked and jogged together with his mother trailing him or driving beside him along with her flashers on, Abercrombie added. After about two or three blocks, she slowed down, and the kid reached for the door deal with presumably to attempt to get again within the automotive.
“She may not have realized he was doing that,” Abercrombie mentioned, and she or he drove off, inflicting him to be pulled beneath the automobile.
Investigators imagine the mom by chance ran over the boy, but it surely wouldn’t have occurred if he wasn’t being punished to start with, Abercrombie mentioned.
The mom, whose identification has been withheld to guard the privateness of her son, has since been charged with aggravated little one abuse, in keeping with Marshall County jail data.
The little one was taken to a Birmingham hospital with abrasions on his again and the facet of his head, the police chief mentioned.
Abercrombie mentioned it was a miracle the kid wasn’t extra severely injured.
“God watched over him,” he mentioned.
The little one didn’t have any inner accidents or damaged bones.
The mom was booked in jail and launched three days in a while a $50,000 bond, data present.
McClatchy News didn’t determine the girl to guard the identification of her son.
