LAKE WALES, Fla. — A Polk County mother was arrested after she allegedly ran over her boyfriend who was holding their 16-month-old child after he threw a cinder block at her car, the sheriff's office said.
Aaliyah Ross, 27, got into an argument with her 25-year-old boyfriend on Monday in Lake Wales. The argument escalated when the boyfriend allegedly went outside of the house with their son and threw a cinder block through her windshield, according to a video posted by the Polk County Sheriff's Office.
Ross then put two of her other small children into her car, a 4-year-old and a 6-month-old, before getting into the driver's seat and accelerating toward her boyfriend and the child he was holding. He tried to run away but Ross ran them both over before crashing the car into a trailer, according to a news release.
"Like bump, bump, bump...ran over them," Sheriff Grady Judd said in the video.
Ross left the scene with the baby she injured but returned to the house to put the infant inside and leave him there alone as she left again. The boyfriend goes back to the house, gets the baby, and they both go to the hospital, the sheriff's office said.
The boyfriend was treated and released from the hospital after having bruising to his body and lungs. The 16-month-old is still in the hospital with a broken left shoulder and collar bone, multiple broken ribs, a partially collapsed lung and abrasions and bruising on his body, according to the release.
When Ross was arrested she reportedly told a detective that there have been "several times in the past that she has acted as if she was going to run over the man, but she would swerve at the last second to avoid hitting him. She said she assumed that because of that, he would have moved out of the way in this instance, but he did not," the release read.
“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.
She was arrested at her sister's house in Orlando and booked into the Orange County Jail but will be transferred to the Polk County Jail, the sheriff's office said.
She is being charged with aggravated child abuse, aggravated domestic battery, negligent child abuse, domestic battery and leaving the scene of a crash with property damage.
The Florida Department of Children and Families is evaluating a plan of custody for the other two children.