Pictures taken by an American citizen on his mobile phone show Leimome Cheeks, 62, from Memphis, USA, carrying her grandchildren to school in cages for animals in his trunk. her car. The man saw the woman getting the children out of the car and immortalized the unprecedented event and then "uploaded" the video on social media, resulting in it going viral…
He then forwarded it to the local authorities who arrested the woman facing two counts of child threat. She told police she could not transport the children otherwise because there was no space in the car. The children, aged seven and eight respectively, told police they were "melting" from the heat inside the cages.
A neighbor told police: "It was really unbelievable. I met her once and she looked like a good woman. "I could not have realized that he did such a thing."