Woman Allegedly Asked 9-Year-Old to Move Her Car. The Girl Crashed — Now She’s Injured

Ladeja Pickett, 25, has been charged with injury to a child and endangering a child, according to online court records

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  • A Texas woman is accused of telling a 9-year-old girl to move her car, which the child ended up crashing
  • Ladeja Pickett, 25, has been charged with injury to a child and endangering a child
  • Authorities said the child “sustained a laceration to the forehead and had road rash on the leg”

A Texas woman is facing criminal charges after allegedly telling a 9-year-old girl to move her car, which ended in a crash that injured the child.

Ladeja Pickett, 25, has been charged with injury to a child and endangering a child, according to online court records filed in Bexar County. It’s unclear if she has entered a plea and an attorney was not listed in court records.

Deputies responded to the crash scene in San Antonio just after 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 9. Pickett allegedly told investigators that she asked the child to move a car out of her driveway while she was decorating her yard for Christmas, a spokesperson for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement to PEOPLE on Wednesday, Nov. 12…

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