Mother who 'forced 10-year-old son to walk 5 miles to school faces jail time for endangerment' (video)

Mother who 'forced 10-year-old son to walk 5 miles to school faces jail time for endangerment'

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:54 PM on 19th February 2012





A mother faces a year in jail after forcing her 10 year old son to walk almost five miles to school after he was banned from the school bus.

Valerie Borders said she wanted to teach her son Nequavion a lesson after his bad behaviour led to his bus riding privileges being suspended at his school in Arkansas.

The 34-year-old ordered him to walk to school from their home in Jonesboro, rather than drive him to school.





But during his 4.6mile walk he was spotted by a security guard as he crossed a bank parking lot.

The guard called police who took the boy to school and then contacted his mother who was charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

According to an arrest report when police picked up the boy he told them: 'Please don’t take me home. Mother will beat me.'

Police said the boy's mother had overstepped the mark with her punishment.

'You ask yourself the question, is that safe for the child?' said Jonesboro Police spokesman Sgt. Lyle Waterworth.

'And if you wouldn’t want your child doing it, you probably don’t need some (other) child doing it.

'There were a number of things that could have happened to the child. The child could have been injured, abducted,' said Sgt Waterworth.

Nequavion Jones said he agreed with his mother's punishment and doesn't want to see her get into trouble.

'She did the right thing, she knew that I had been suspended off the bus five days, so she didn't do nothing wrong. She made me walk. I just had to walk. They shouldn't have picked me up. I could've walked by myself, ' said Nequavion.

The youngster had his bus privileges suspended for a fifth time due to yelling.

If found guilty his mother faces up to a year in jail for a fine of $1,000.