Grandma busted for putting child on car's roof
Posted on Thu, Aug. 07, 2008
MARATHON --
(AP) -- Authorities say a grandmother was arrested for driving around the parking lot of a Marathon grocery store with her 3-year-old child sitting on the roof of the car.
Monroe County Sheriff's Office deputies were called to the Publix store Tuesday and arrested 54-year-old Brenda Bouschet after she was driving around with her 3-year-old granddaughter on the roof of her car.
Bouschet was released from jail 15 hours later.
Bouschet said Thursday she would never let anything hurt her granddaughter. She said she was driving at ''snail-speed'' and holding the child's leg.
Authorities say Bouschet told police she was giving the child some air and letting her have fun.
She faces charges of child abuse. The child is back with her mother.
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