A woman was arrested after falsely reporting an abduction, leaving her son alone along a main road and letting him escape at night after throwing a nervous breakdown, police said.

The incident took place on November 5 in St. Landry County Sheriff’s Office officials Louisiana St. Eunice responded to a report of an allegedly abducted child around 1 a.m. near the area of ​​US 190 and Industrial Road in Louisiana, according to a statement from the Landry County Sheriff’s Office.

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“Mother Artasia Quantaya Viges reported that people in an older model truck abducted her son while he was tending to an under-inflated tire parked on the road,” authorities said.

But soon after police arrived on the scene, deputies said they learned the child was found in the parking lot of the Heinen Medical Clinic by area citizens with abrasion injuries to his knees.

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“The boy told officers his mother had ‘stomped him’ and left him on the side of the road,” authorities said. he said. The child was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Because of this great disparity in expressions, St. Landry County Sheriff’s Office Juvenile Detectives were called to investigate.

“A later interview with Artasia Viges revealed the terrible truth; Police said no abduction took place and a young child was left unattended along the main road and allowed to escape overnight. “The disagreement that started between the mother and the child turned into a strange reaction to the child’s tantrum.”

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When Viges pulled the car over, the child, who was “obviously not properly restrained,” broke free from the car before it stopped, resulting in the child’s injured knees, police said.

Police continued: “The mother chose to leave her child outside the car and allow him to escape along the main roads in the dark.” “The mother admitted to detectives that she did not try to go after him and eventually lost sight of him.

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Viges was later arrested and the investigation into the incident is currently ongoing.

Boy says his mother ‘ran him over’ and left him on the side of the road before accidentally reporting kidnapping: Police originally appeared abcnews.go.com