MARYSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who authorities say ran
over his 4-year-old son after the boy fell from a van will be allowed to
leave jail to attend a memorial service for the child.
Defense attorney Scott Culbert tells The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/KjxCF8 ) he’ll take Natividad de Jesus
Hernandez to the Thursday service and return him to jail.
The
30-year-old Columbus man is accused of driving away without talking to
authorities after the accident last Thursday in Union County.
Culbert
says Hernandez shouldn’t be prosecuted, pointing to video that shows
police arriving to help and then leaving him there alone.
Hernandez,
who is from El Salvador, is being held on $500,000 bond. Authorities
say he is in the U.S. illegally and was stealing from a construction
site.
Culbert denies the theft allegation.
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MARYSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who authorities say ran
over his 4-year-old son after the boy fell from a van will be allowed to
leave jail to attend a memorial service for the child.
Defense attorney Scott Culbert tells The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/KjxCF8 ) he’ll take Natividad de Jesus
Hernandez to the Thursday service and return him to jail.
The
30-year-old Columbus man is accused of driving away without talking to
authorities after the accident last Thursday in Union County.
Culbert
says Hernandez shouldn’t be prosecuted, pointing to video that shows
police arriving to help and then leaving him there alone.
Hernandez,
who is from El Salvador, is being held on $500,000 bond. Authorities
say he is in the U.S. illegally and was stealing from a construction
site.
Culbert denies the theft allegation.
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Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.com
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed.