Overview
- Ladeja Pickett, 25, was booked Monday on charges of injury to a child and endangering a child, according to Bexar County jail records.
- Deputies say the collision occurred around 4 p.m. Sunday in the 4200 block of Gossan Springs in far west Bexar County.
- A preliminary report states Pickett told investigators she asked a child under 10 to move a vehicle while people were putting up Christmas decorations, after which the child lost control and the car struck a neighbor’s truck.
- The sheriff’s office reported the child suffered a forehead laceration and road rash, and confirmed Pickett is not the child’s mother.
- The child’s mother told KSAT the girl is 9, described Pickett as a family friend who insisted the child would learn to drive, and said the girl has undergone multiple surgeries.