The whole thing sounds strange. No question the parents showed poor judgment in allowing the son to drive the cart but a citation should have been sufficient. What police officer doesn't have his ticket book with him? Seems like they held the woman there an awfully long time if you consider that the niece left with the kids and the husband left to get bug repellant and returned. And why was just the mother charged? The father was also in the cart sitting next to the boy. My gut feeling is that the true story is somewhere between the two versions given. Regardless, the charges didn't fit the crime. Child endangerment, okay, but not child abuse.
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