Mom Ran Over Her 8-Year-Old Daughter with Car, Gave Bizarre Excuse that It Was Part of a 'Game'

An Indiana pistillate has been sentenced aft moving implicit her 8-year-old girl during a “game” gone wrong, according to the St. Joseph County Prosecutor’s Office.

Jasmine White, 27, of South Bend, Ind., told constabulary it happened accidentally during a crippled she regularly played with her 4 children, according to a probable origin affidavit reviewed by PEOPLE.

The crippled entailed racing her kids to their Chevrolet Equinox, jumping in, locking the doors, and acting similar she was going to permission without the kids. One of the children told an researcher connected the country that they didn't similar the game, but their parent continued to play it.

On August 29, 2024, during a league of the “game,” White reportedly began driving astir 15 mph wrong her flat analyzable parking batch portion her 8-year-old girl was extracurricular clinging to the car's doorway handle, according to grounds 1 of the children gave to an researcher astatine the scene, per the affidavit.

White's different children were besides moving alongside the car astatine the time. The 6-year-old kid said White was alert the 8-year-old was hanging onto the doorway grip arsenic she drove.

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White’s 6-year-old kid told the researcher her ma was driving faster than she usually did, and the 8-year-old hanging onto the doorway grip ended up getting deed by the conveyance aft her ft got caught nether the rear tyre of the car.

The small miss fell to the crushed and deed her head, suffering terrible caput injuries and losing 5 teeth. She was successful captious information aft the incidental and has since been released from the hospital.

In January, White pled blameworthy to 2 counts of kid neglect aft initially pleading not blameworthy to the charges. White was sentenced to 9 years (with 5 years suspended). She volition service 4 years successful St. Joseph County Community Corrections enactment merchandise program, per the St. Joseph County Prosecutor's Office, and volition beryllium connected probation for 2 years aft that.

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