A Louisiana woman is behind bars after police say she falsely reported her young son’s kidnapping last week.
Artasia Viges, 24, called authorities at about 1 a.m. on Nov. 5 to report alleged kidnapping Their young son died near US 190 and Industrial Road in Eunice, according to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Wigges said she was standing on the road changing a tire when “people in an older model truck” took her son away.
When deputies arrived at the scene, they immediately learned that citizens had found the little boy alone in the parking lot of Heinen Medical Clinic with “abrasion injuries to his knees,” the Sheriff’s Office said.
The child, whose age has not been disclosed, told police that his mother “ran him over” and left him on the side of the road.
He was taken to the hospital for treatment.
Juvenile detectives from the Sheriff’s Office were called in to investigate due to extreme differences in the statements of the child and his mother.
The Sheriff’s Office said that a later interview with Wigges “revealed the terrible truth”, which was that the little boy had not been abducted, but had instead been left unattended on a major road and “allowed to escape into the night. Was given.”
“What started as a disagreement between a mother and child turned into a bizarre reaction to a child having a tantrum,” the sheriff’s office said on Facebook.
When Viges pulled the car over, his son jumped out of the car before it stopped, injuring his knees.
The Sheriff’s Office noted that he was “apparently not properly restrained.”
Viges reportedly told detectives that she did not try to go after her son and “eventually lost sight of him.”
Viges has been charged with cruelty to juveniles, child abandonment and perjury for the purpose of violating public health protection.
He is in the St. Landry Parish Jail on $200,000 bond.
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