Ohio mom tries to abandon 6 yo son, then runs him over as he tries to get back in the car

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A woman is facing a murder charge after police say she reported her 6-year-old son missing, then admitted he had been killed and his body dumped in the Ohio River.

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Police say Gosney reported her son missing Sunday morning. The department organized search teams in an attempt to find the boy.

However, police say investigators continued to question Gosney and Hamilton and learned that Hutchinson had been killed a few days earlier in Preble County, which is northwest of Middletown on the Indiana border. Police say they brought the body back to Middletown, where they live, then later put the body in the Ohio River.

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The Middletown mother charged with murdering her 6-year-old son drove to a Preble County wildlife area on Friday to abandon him and then ran over him when he tried to get back in the car, court records show.

Brittany Gosney, 29, told Middletown police she sped off, dragged her son, James Robert Hutchinson, for a distance before returning about 30 to 40 minutes later. She said she found him dead in the middle of the parking lot with a head injury.

When she drove back to the scene, Gosney “stated she picked the child up, put him back in the vehicle and drove back (to their home on Crawford Street) where she took the child in the house and placed him in an upstairs bedroom,” police wrote in her criminal complaint.

Gosney’s other two kids were inside of the car with her the entire time, Middletown Police Chief David Birk said on Monday. Those two kids were not harmed, and Birk said Gosney has not mentioned if she intended to harm them also.

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