Alabama mom Sarai James runs over 7-year-old son with car after forcing him to walk from school as punishment

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By Patrick Reilly

An Alabama mom punished her 7-year-old son by making him stroll house from college — then ran him over by chance, based on police.

Sarai Rachel James, 27, picked up her son from college in Boaz round 3:30 p.m. on February 9 and discovered from the boy’s principal that he had gotten in bother at college that morning, police mentioned.

Not removed from the varsity, police mentioned James stopped her automobile and made her son get out.  She instructed him he must stroll or run the remainder of the way in which house — about eight blocks, cops mentioned.

James drove beside her son or trailed him for just a few blocks, however when she slowed down the boy tried to seize the door deal with of the automobile, Boaz Chief of Police Michael Abercrombie instructed McClatchy Information.

She accelerated and her son was pulled below the automobile, which ran over him with a rear tire, based on police.

Abercrombie mentioned investigators imagine James by chance ran over the boy — however he by no means would have been in that state of affairs if she had not determined to punish him.

“She might not have realized he was doing that,” Abercrombie mentioned.

He was taken to the College of Alabama hospital with solely abrasions on his again and facet of the pinnacle. 

“God watched over him,” Abercombie mentioned.

James, 27, was arrested and charged with aggravated little one abuse. She was launched on a $50,000 bond three days later, based on jail information.

James is barred from having any contact together with her son, Al.com reported.

One other 53-year-old lady who was within the car on the time of the incident was charged with endangering the welfare of a kid, a misdemeanor. She was launched on a $500 bond.