A six-year-old child in Iowa has heroically saved their own mum’s life after bravely handing a note with two haunting words on it to their school bus driver.
The young US student gave the note saying “call 911” to the driver at around 7.30am on Wednesday morning (24th September) and he immediately alerted authorities, the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office said as per News 13.
Police then visited the child’s home and found that the mum was being held against her will and had been seriously assaulted throughout the night. She was unable to make a phone call herself, so she wrote the note on a piece of paper and gave it to her child to call for help.
A male suspect, 29-year-old Glenroy Miller from the Bahamas, has been arrested and charged with domestic abuse assault, amongst other charges.
Credit: Fayette County Sheriff’s Office
“It was learned that Miller had seriously assaulted the female victim throughout the night. At one point Miller started to take her to the hospital and then turned around and forced her home after realizing he would go to jail if he did. Miller continued to assault the victim throughout the night causing serious injuries and threatened to kill her by holding a knife to her throat and wrists,” the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook statement.
A hospital examination found that the mother had serious injuries, including two broken ribs and a punctured lung from getting kicked.
Miller’s full charges include domestic abuse assault with intent to inflict serious injury, willful injury causing serious injury, kidnapping 2nd degree armed with a dangerous weapon and obstruction of an emergency communication device.
The suspect is being held at the Fayette County Jail where he awaits trial, while also being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as he is from the Caribbean.
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