A Wisconsin mother was arrested after she allegedly dumped her 12-year-old son on a busy highway over his bad grades.
Officers found the crying teen walking along Interstate 94 on Thursday and learned that he had been walking alone for 5 minutes in cold weather.
The boy said he and his mother argued over his bad grades and “school work habits” before she kicked him out of the vehicle and left him to walk to Sylvan Learning Center, more than two miles away.
Police found Flor Escalante, 43, waiting for her son at the center and arrested her.
She reportedly told cops she abandoned her son “so he can understand what labor is.”
While Escalante was “visibly upset about the situation,” officers noticed that she “did not seem to grasp the recklessness and negligent nature of her actions.”
She was charged with child abandonment and neglecting a child.
