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A Texas judge ruled yesterday there was no probable cause to charge a mother accused of sticking her 13-year-old son in the trunk of her car to avoid being exposed to Covid-19 on their trip to a drive-thru testing site.
Sarah Beam, 41, from the Cypress-Fairbanks area near Houston, allegedly packed the teen in the trunk as she drove to the testing site at Ken Pridgeon Stadium to get a confirmatory test when he returned a positive result on January 3.
Cypress Fairbanks ISD Police Department (Cy-Fair ISD PD) issued a warrant for her arrest on Friday and later charged her with child endangerment.
Texas Judge Chris Morton ruled yesterday that she had not put her son in 'imminent danger of bodily harm, her lawyer Nathaniel Pitoniak told KHOU outside court.
But he said the state could to continue to investigate Beam, a school teacher in Cy-Fair Independent School District.
Harris County Police Department said they respected Judge Morton's ruling and would continue to review the evidence with the possibility of taking the case to a grand jury to find an appropriate charge to bring against Beam.
