Sarai Rachel James, a resident of the US state of Alabama, mistakenly ran her car over her seven-year-old child after forcing him to walk home from school as a punishment. Police officials from the city of Boaz, Alabama said Sarai Rachel James picked her son up from the school on February 9 and heard from the principal that her child got into trouble earlier that day and decided to punish him to set an example going forward.
The mother stopped the car a short distance from the school and then told her son to walk home from there. The school and the house were eight blocks away from each other.
The boy initially started walking home but suddenly tried to grab the handle of the car door when the vehicle was moving. The mother suddenly accelerated the car, pulling her son under the car. He was run over with the back tire. The child was hospitalised with abrasions.
“It was a miracle he was not hurt worse than what he could have been,” Boaz police department chief Michael Abercrombie was quoted as saying by the AL.
However, the police and the investigators believe that Sarai Rachel James ran him over accidentally. Boaz police chief Michael Abercrombie did, however, point out that it was the punishment that led to the incident. “She may not have realised he was doing that,” he said.
Sarai Rachel James, 27, has been charged with aggravated child abuse in connection with the incident. She was released on $50,000 bond.
A 53-year-old woman, who police did not name, was also inside the car during the incident and she has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child and was released on $500 bond.
Sarai Rachel James is forbidden from contacting her son who remains hospitalised.
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