Posted on 02/18/2024 7:58:04 AM PST by Morgana
An Alabama mom has been accused of punishing her seven-year-old son by making him walk home from school before accidentally running him over with her car.
Sarai Rachel James, 27, was charged with aggravated child abuse on February 8 over the cruel punishment, according to Marshall County Jail records.
She picked her son up from school in Boaz, northern Alabama, around 3.30pm, when she learned he had got into trouble with the principal earlier that day.
There were two women in the car along with the boy - James and an unnamed 53-year-old woman who has also been arrested, police told McClatchy News.
James allegedly stopped the car and ordered her son to get out and run or walk the rest of the way home - around eight blocks.
She drove beside him for a few blocks, but the boy tried to grab the car door handle.
James accelerated and her son was pulled under the vehicle, which ran him over with the rear tire. Investigators believe that part of the incident was an accident.
Boaz Chief of Police Michael Abercrombie told McClatchy News the child would never have been in that situation if James had not decided to punish him.
The boy was taken to the University of Alabama hospital with scrapes on his back and the side of his head from the incident.
James was arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse. She was released on a $50,000 bond on February 11, according to Marshall County Jail records.
She is reportedly barred from having any contact with her son.
The 53-year-old passenger in James' car at the time of the incident has also been charged with endangering the welfare of a child, and she has been released on a $500 bond.
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I thought the article meant the boy was 27 years old.
All the kids who lived near the school went home for lunch...
The rest of us brought lunch from home and ate it in a classroom designated as a lunchroom...
I usually had Marmite and lettuce sandwiches and cookies...
Mondays we had meat pies that Mom baked on Sunday night...
The bread shop was only open Monday through Friday so the re was no fresh bread Monday mornings...
As for a thermos I sometimes took hot soup to school in the winter...
At our school we were free to come and go as long as we were on time for class after lunch...
Every grade had the same hour for lunch...
In elementary school we took our shoes and socks off and played leapfrog after we ate ...
In high school our headmistress frowned on such unladylike behavior and we had to keep our shoes on ...
:)
I wonder what the boy’s original offense was? That is, something serious enough for “getting in trouble with the principal”.
I thought I had better further explain the leapfrog event ...
We wore a school uniform in both elementary and high school...
A tunic and blouse and added black stockings, a hat and blazer in HS...
In elementary school we tucked our skirt up into our bloomers to play leapfrog or do handstands ...
In HS it was deemed unseemly to do so...
There were rules in HS such as suspension for not wearing our hat even off campus after school...
Taught that kid a lesson.
If I was King...this "Mom" would hang.
She disappeared into the blackness.
At our house when I was in the 1st grade, we had to walk through woods to get to school. By second grade we lived in a different House, one like yours - just slighly not far enough to take the bus - about 8/10 of a mile. Even in the winter through snow way much higher than me, it was not “oh woe is me”, it was just the way it was.
I see so many situations today where no kid walks or rides their bikes to school - either a bus or their parents take them and pick them up.
Same here. Colorado. Eight blocks is nothing.
Surprised by the perp picture. Figured it was one of he usual suspects.
Well you can't blame the schools, nowadays if something happened while the kid was out for lunch, they'd be sued by the parents.
I have to agree, I walked home k-10, didnt see it as a punishment as much as a grown up thing to do. even as a 5 y.o. walking home with a group if friends was how we socialized and got our asses beat if we were too weird. stopped the trans movement by 3rd grade.
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