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By: ANDREA DAVIS, Post Intern

Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:00 am

A mother was arrested for aggravated child abuse at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 19 after her child was run over by a car near their home on Riviera Drive.

Lacey Howington was not supervising her son, 3-year-old Keenius Thomas, when he was playing outside.

He was across the street on Pecan Court. when a woman backed over him with her car.

The woman who backed over the child reportedly knocked on Howington's door for approximately five minutes before Howington answered.

When the Murfreesboro Police arrived on the scene, they discovered that Howington had been smoking marijuana in her bedroom.

There was a "strong odor" of burnt marijuana outside the front door of Howington's home. She was given a drug test when she arrived at the Murfreesboro Police Department and it showed positive for marijuana.

Kyle Evans, spokesperson for the Murfreesboro Police Department, said the child has been treated and released from Vanderbilt Children's Hospital.

Tagged under Child Abuse, Crime, Drugs, MPD

Member Opinions:

By: Sprtman on 4/22/11
Keenius? These people just make up names. I guess while their on drugs.