A Texas mother was arrested on Saturday for allegedly making false statements to police about her two-year-old son’s life-threatening injuries sustained in February, in which he had suffered internal injuries, burns, and a lacerated liver.
Shelby Martinez, 30, was arrested on Saturday at her apartment complex where her son was injured and has been charged with making false statements to police, according to KFDX Wichita Falls.
Authorities say Martinez and the boy’s father, Thomas Gates, tried to cover up how their child received life-threatening injuries.Their two-year-old son was allegedly run over by Gates when he was backing out of his vehicle, but the couple blamed it on an “unknown white couple,” according to police. Martinez and Gates are both black.Gates was arrested in February, several days after the incident, for the same charge after coming clean to the police about how the incident played out.According to authorities, Gates told them […]
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