An Alabama mother punished her 7-year-old son by making him walk home from school — then ran him over accidentally, according to police.
Sarai Rachel James, 27, picked up her son from school in Boaz around 3:30 p.m. on February 9 and learned from the boy’s principal that he had gotten in trouble at school that morning, police said.
Not far from the school, police said James stopped her car and made her son get out. She told him he would have to walk or run the rest of the way home — about eight blocks, cops said.
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James drove beside her son or trailed him for a few blocks, but when she slowed down the boy tried to grab the door handle of the car, Boaz Chief of Police Michael Abercrombie told McClatchy News .
She accelerated and her son was pulled under the car, which ran over him with a rear tire, according to police.