A Texas mom faces youngster endangerment expenses after forcing her 14-year-old son to journey within the trunk of her automobile to get a COVID take a look at at a drive-thru website.
Sarah Beam, 42, from the Cyprus-Fairbanks space close to Houston, allegedly packed the teenager within the trunk as she drove to the testing website at Ken Pridgeon Stadium after he examined optimistic for the virus on January 3 to get one other take a look at.
Cypress Fairbanks ISD Police Division (Cy-Honest ISD PD) issued a warrant for her arrest Friday, in accordance with KETK.
Police mentioned Beam pulled to the large tent arrange on Falcon Highway when Bevin Gordon, the well being providers director on the website, heard a noise inside her trunk.
Beam, who has labored within the Cy-Honest district as a instructor since 2011, advised Gordon that her son had examined optimistic for the virus and needed to be quarantined, in accordance with the court docket affidavit.
She advised Gordon she positioned in him the trunk so as to defend herself from the virus and wished to get him an extra take a look at, police mentioned.
Police didn’t say whether or not the mother or her unidentified son had been vaccinated.
Sarah Beam, 42, of Harris County, Texas, has been charged with youngster endangerment and has a warrant for her arrest after her son, 14, was present in her trunk when she arrived at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing website at Ken Pridgeon stadium
Well being Providers Director Bevin Gordon heard noises at the back of the trunk when she arrived on the stadium (pictured) and located the kid laying within the trunk. Gordon ordered the kid to be positioned safely within the backseat earlier than he would take a look at them
When she popped the trunk, Gordon discovered the boy laying down contained in the car and advised Beam she couldn’t obtain a COVID-19 take a look at till the boy was seated safely within the backseat.
Surveillance footage obtained by Cy-Honest ISD PD reportedly confirmed the 14-year-old exiting the trunk and climbing into the again seat.
DailyMail.com has contacted Cy-Honest ISD PD for the footage.
The teenager was not harmed in the course of the incident, Cy-Honest ISD spokeswoman Leslie Francis mentioned in a press release.
Beam not too long ago labored as a instructor within the district however is presently on administrative depart, Francis mentioned.
Harris County presently has 100,000 COVID-19 circumstances with a seven-day common of 10,000. Texas has had virtually a 400 p.c improve in circumstances within the final two weeks.
The county, which encompasses Houston, presently has 57 p.c of its residents absolutely vaccinated.
Texas circumstances have risen virtually 400 per cent within the final two weeks