Va. Mother Charged With Abandoning Son, 4, on Beltway

Va. Mother Charged With Abandoning Son, 4, on Beltway: "Va. Mother Charged With Abandoning Son, 4, on Beltway

By Nikita Stewart
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 27, 2005; 4:33 PM

Fairfax police charged a Newport News, Va., woman with child neglect and hit and run last night after they found her 4-year-old son wandering alone about 10 p.m. on the Capital Beltway near Lee Highway.

Police said the child had been put out of the car by his mother, Channoah Alece Green, 22, who was angry at him. The child told an officer who picked him up that his mother was upset with him because he would not sit down. The child was treated at Inova Fairfax Hospital for scratches and cuts.


Because Green allegedly bumped the child with her car, after she let him out, police charged her with hit and run, authorities said.

The child was turned over to Fairfax County Child Protective Services, which provides emergency foster care in such cases.

Police said Green was charged with reckless driving later in Hanover County for an unrelated incident. Authorities said she is in the county jail north of Richmond."