According to US reports, Sarah Beam of Texas is being charged with child endangering. Authorities arrested the 41-year-old after a health service official reportedly found the child in the trunk of her car.
According to a Harris County prosecutor’s arrest warrant quoted on CNN, Ms. Beam was reported after visiting a Covid testing site.
The site’s health services director allegedly gathered information from cars queued for testing when she found something suspicious.
The warrant states: “She found a driver who was later identified as Sarah Beam and had her child in the trunk of her car.”
The health director told police that “the defendant confirmed that her son was … in the trunk of the car because the child tested positive for Covid”.
The mother allegedly took this measure to protect herself from being infected with the virus.
She drove him to the construction site for “additional tests”.
The son is 13 years old, they say.
The warrant also stated that after she asked Ms. Beam to show her the child, she found it was “in the trunk.”
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Ms. Beam is a teacher in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD).
The school told CNN, “CFPD was made aware last week that a child was in the trunk of a car on a drive-through Covid test site.
“Law enforcement officers conducted a full investigation that resulted in an arrest warrant. Thank goodness the child wasn’t hurt.
“Sarah Beam last worked as a teacher at CFISD and is currently on administrative leave.”
A surveillance camera from a nearby building confirmed to the police that, according to the arrest warrant, the child “got out of the trunk of the car and got into the back seat of the vehicle on the passenger side”.
Beam was reportedly released on Sunday on bail of US $ 1,500 (£ 1,100).
