Alabama Mom Made 7-Year-Old Walk Home From School As Punishment, Ran Over Him With Her Car

A mom went overboard when it got here to punishing her 7-year-old son for getting in bother on the college bus.

Alabama authorities say the 27-year-old mom picked her son up from college on February 8 after he acquired in bother on the college bus and couldn’t take the bus residence, Boaz Police Chief Michael Abercrombie advised McClatchy Information over the telephone.

As a outcome, the mom needed to decide him up from college, and that’s when she made him get out of the automotive to stroll residence 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 he or she drove off, inflicting him to be pulled underneath the automobile.

Investigators consider the mom unintentionally 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 baby abuse, in line with Marshall County jail data.

The kid was taken to a Birmingham hospital with abrasions on his again and the aspect 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 kid 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 Information didn’t determine the girl to guard the identification of her son.