A Texas mother has been charged with endangering a child after she allegedly placed her 13-year-old son, who had COVID-19, into her car's trunk to avoid being exposed to the virus, according to a warrant from the Harris County District Attorney's Office.Sarah Beam, 41, was charged after authorities arrived at a Houston-area COVID-19 testing site on January 3 following a report that a health services official had found the child in trunk of Beam's car. According to the warrant, the director of health services stated she was gathering information from cars in a line for COVID-19 testing when "she found a female driver, later identified as Sarah Beam, having her child in the trunk of her car."The health director told police "the defendant confirmed that her son, K.H., who is a 13-year-old child, was in the trunk of the car due (to) the child having been tested positive for COVID."
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