Va. Mother Charged With Abandoning Son, 4, on Beltway

Posted July 27, 2005, 11:46 a.m.

I am so appalled by this story that I have no independent commentary. Read for yourself. . . .

Fairfax police charged a Newport News, Va., woman with child neglect and hit and run last night after they found her 4-year-old son wandering alone about 10 p.m. on the Capital Beltway near Lee Highway.

Police said the child had been put out of the car by his mother, Channoah Alece Green, 22, who was angry at him. . . .

Because Green allegedly bumped the child with her car, after she let him out, police charged her with hit and run, authorities said.

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Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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