Mom 'upset' over daughter missing bus caught 'striking' the child with her car in school parking lot: Sheriff

A 48-year-old parent successful Tennessee has been arrested aft she allegedly became truthful aggravated astatine her girl for missing the autobus that she struck the kid with a car aft dropping her disconnected successful the schoolhouse parking lot.

Misty Sue Coleman was taken into custody pursuing the incidental past week and charged with 1 number of aggravated kid maltreatment oregon neglect, authorities announced. According to a news release from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, the incidental took spot connected the greeting of Tuesday, Aug. 19, astatine the Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy, which is located successful the 1800 artifact of Bailey Avenue successful Chattanooga.

The school, which serves students from grades 6-12, is astir 140 miles southeast of Nashville.

That morning, the "School Resource Deputy" assigned to the academy responded to the school's medication bureau regarding a study of a pupil "being struck by their mother's conveyance successful the schoolhouse parking lot," the sheriff's bureau said.

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The schoolhouse unit told investigators that Coleman's daughter, whose sanction and property were not disclosed, came into the principal's bureau that greeting "visibly upset" and told administrators that her parent — whom she identified arsenic Coleman — "became aggravated aft the kid missed the schoolhouse bus."

"While exiting the vehicle, the pupil stated the parent accelerated earlier the kid was afloat outside, striking the victim's close ankle and driving distant from field without stopping," the sheriff's bureau wrote successful the release.

Investigators were capable to get surveillance footage from the school's parking lot, which they said corroborated the victim's relationship of what took place.

"The video showed the pupil partially exiting the rear rider broadside earlier the conveyance accelerated, striking the kid and leaving the country with the doorway inactive open," the merchandise states.

Following the preliminary investigation, deputies arrested Coleman connected the maltreatment charge. Due to the ongoing quality of the probe and the information that it "pertains to a juvenile," the sheriff's bureau said it would not merchandise immoderate further details astir the case.

Coleman was released from detention aft posting enslaved and is presently scheduled to look successful General Sessions Court connected the greeting of Sept. 3, records show.