An Alabama woman trying to punish her son by making him walk home from school ran over him accidentally, AL.com reports. Now she is prohibited from having any contact with the boy.
The incident unfolded around 3:30 p.m. Friday, February 9, in the city of Boaz after 27-year-old Sarai Rachel James learned from a principal that her 7-year-old son had gotten into trouble at school.
As James was driving a car away from the school, she stopped and forced the child to get out so he would have to walk the rest of the way back to their home, approximately eight blocks away.
James drove near the boy for several blocks. At one point when she slowed down, the boy tried to hold onto a door handle, but James sped up and the child was pulled under the vehicle.
The boy was pulled under the car and a rear tire ran over him. He was rushed to the University of Alabama hospital and fortunately had only abrasions to the back and side of his head.
“God watched over him,” Boaz Police Chief Michael Abercrombie told AL.com, in reference to the boy.
James was later arrested and charged with one count of aggravated child abuse, according to the news outlet. She has been released from the Marshall County Jail on a $50,000 bond, but the court ordered her to have no contact with the boy for the time being.
A 53-year-old woman who was also in the car at the time of the incident faces a misdemeanor charge of endangering the welfare of a child. She is free on a $500 bond.
Boaz is about 70 miles northeast of Birmingham.
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[Feature Photo: Sarai Rachel James/Marshall County Jail]
