A Lake Wales woman was arrested Monday after running over a man carrying a baby with her car during an argument, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
Aaliyah Ross, 27, was arrested in Orange County.
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According to the sheriff’s office, Ross and a 25-year-old man were arguing when she got into her vehicle and “she lunged forward in the car like she was going to run over him.”
The man was holding a 16-month-old child when she followed him with her vehicle and ran over them, according to Sheriff Grady Judd. The car then crashed into a building.
The sheriff’s office said in a release that Ross told detectives she has previously “acted as if she was going to run over the man, but she would swerve at the last second to avoid hitting him.”
“Aaliyah Ross made a series of incredibly unthinkable choices Monday: running over a man and a baby with a car, leaving the baby alone, and failing to get medical treatment for the obviously injured baby. Someone who does this to a baby will do this to anyone — her uncontrollable rage is a threat to the public,” Judd said in a statement.
The man went to hospital with bruising to his body and lungs. The child was taken to the hospital, where they remain, with a broken left shoulder and collar bone, broken ribs, a partially collapsed lung and abrasions and bruising.
Ross faces charges of aggravated child abuse, aggravated battery, negligent child abuse and leaving the scene of a crash with property damage.
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