An Arizona mother who ran over a 12-year-old girl with her pickup truck after a quarrel in a park was sentenced Friday to a decade behind bars, prosecutors say.
Brandie Gotch, 31, pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated assault, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office said in a press release. In February 2024, Gotch’s children were fighting at Westgreen Park in Peoria, a suburb of Phoenix, while other kids were egging them on and recording the incident.
Prosecutors said Gotch arrived at the park to pick her kids up and was walking them back to her truck when a 14-year-old boy called her a name. Gotch walked up to the boy, grabbed him by the hair and began “pulling his head back and forth and side to side, while yelling at him,” police previously said…