Who you tonight? >> Both my parents. I was trying to run away again. >> He thinks that he's >> whether he thinks he's 25. Mentally he's not even 13. >> Every time he told me you you I popped him in his mouth. I even threatened to call the police. He said I don't give a you and a he refuses to shower. He don't want to do nothing but eat. He keeps a in his bedroom. >> You cannot step on your children. >> On March 1st, 2023, officers responded after a 13-year-old dependent was reported running away from home with visible bruises. Hey Bo, we know each other. Hey, you remember me? Come have a talk with me. You're not in any trouble. Just sit down. Give you a place to sit besides on the ground. Tell me what happened. >> I've been yelling at the main time. >> Let me Where who you tonight? >> Both my parents. >> Your mom and your dad. Where did they at? >> My lip. I think I scraped my arm on that road and I got my leg, I think. >> Hey, can we use your ambulance real quick? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Hey, let's get in that back of the ambulance real quick so I can look at you real good. No, >> I'm going to stay with you this entire time. Okay, but I I need to look at the marks and it's going to be much easier in the back of the ambulance than it is the car. >> No. >> No. What? >> They heal over time. >> Okay. It's not a question of whether they healed and it's not a question of whether you want to. Okay, bud. This is what's going to happen today. Okay, I'm going to be with you. We know each other, right? Have I ever did anything mean to you? So, let's let's jump in back this amulet so I can look at you. Okay. If you drive down, you'll see everybody. Just have a seat real quick. >> Have a seat right there on that bench, baby. This is just for him. Okay. >> All right. This is just so I can see where you today. >> Let me see. Open your mouth for me. Okay. >> My dad started me. >> Your dad started choking you. >> Look up for me. Then you said you think this happened >> on the road. >> On the road. >> I was trying to run away again. >> Is that why they started you? Mhm. >> How did he you in the mouth? That it was a closed fist, an open fist? >> I think I think I kicked. >> You think he kicked you? >> She >> Your mom kicked you in the face. >> Where' they on the leg? Can I see? >> The foot. >> Is that where that mark's from? >> Yeah. >> All right. You want to hang out right here for me for a few minutes? >> No. >> Where you want to hang out? You want to sit in the back of my patrol car? outside. >> Okay, you can come out and have a seat right here. You >> sure we can't check your vitals and all that stuff? Make sure you're >> I'm going to tell you right now, they're going to check you out whether you refuse or not. I'm here. This is my scene. Okay, you're a minor. They're going to check you out to make sure you're safe. Okay. All right. You know I'm here and we've talked many times. This is my partner, Deput Deputy Hewitt. All right. Will you let them check you out real quick? >> I'm not asking. like a question though. >> But I'm not asking. >> All I want to do is check your blood pressure and check your heart rate. Kido, >> my mom's going to see all these lights and complain. >> I don't care about what she says. You know I don't care, right? >> I don't care either. >> All right. Well, she's going to take your vitals. >> Okay. >> We good. I'm going to leave you, Deputy Hewitt. All right. What I want you to do is just hang out with her for a little bit and I'm going to go to your house. Okay. >> Okay. >> I'll be right back. >> It's not me. >> I didn't say it was you. Where's your mom and dad? My mom is someone's getting something to eat and my daddy's in the house. >> Okay, >> hold on. Let me go get my dad. >> How's it going? Deputy Har with the Bryant County Sheriff's Department. We've met. Come on out to my car real quick for me. Tell me what happened today. >> You want to tell him what happened? I I don't know. I I don't I wouldn't I was in the back and something started popping off out. >> Tell her I need her to come up here. I need to talk to her. She was here. >> I think she's in pool. >> She needs to get here now. >> You hear that? >> You need to get here now. >> All right. cuz um officer Hart >> Uhhuh. >> Uh he needs you here right now. >> I am in ranking. >> Well, you better be about an hour before she can be there. >> Yeah, cuz really he's the one that started off. >> Well, that's and I get that and I don't know what happened. I only have Kenneth's side right now. I need her side. >> I mean, I can be there in about an hour. >> I see. I'm going to ask you to get here as soon as you can. >> Okay. >> I'm not leaving until you get here. >> Okay. I'm heading that way now. >> All right. >> I love you, Mommy. >> I love you, baby. though I don't know what happened. >> Neither do I. I was in I was in the back working working on something and then I heard my wife and Kenneth arguing back and forth. So I walked around here to find out what was going on and he's being totally disrespectful because we took his phone away. >> So where's Kenneth at right now? >> He was walking down. >> Yeah, he is. >> So nobody knows where Kenneth at right now. >> No. >> So we have a child. Hey, do me a favor. Go in the house real quick for me. He >> Hold on. I'm trying not to be disrespectful in front of your daughter. >> I I appreciate that. He ran away the other night. >> So, right now, how old is Kenneth? >> 13. >> How old is his mental capacity? 8, nine, maybe 10, >> probably. >> No. 25? >> No, it's not. >> He He thinks that he's >> whether he thinks he's 25. I'm talking about his actual mental capacity is not 25. He's mentally he's not even 13. >> That's not true, sir. He had autism. Not not >> and I understand that but mentally he might be there. He c when I and I when I say mental capacity I mean to him to interact with anybody he's not 13. >> Absolutely not. Now he has >> so now he's 13 probably running around this town and nobody knows where he's at. >> And I'm washing my hands with it. I don't know what else to do. I'm holding on. I told him doctors what's going on. No one will help me. He wasing me in my neck. I didn't tell people. >> He He punched the front door about broke the glass. >> Okay. >> Punching holes. >> So, why haven't we why haven't we called me today? >> Cuz I could have came and I would have dealt with it. I could have placed him. If it was that bad, I could have placed him. But now we have a 13-year-old with autism that's mentally handicapped, run around Brian County, and nobody knows where he's at. He's >> probably at my mom. >> No, he's not. Last I knew he was in there. He always >> He always stays in his room. >> Point of the story, sir. If you don't know where he is. >> I didn't say I didn't know where he was at. >> Obviously, I'm here because I know where he's at. >> Who's at house involved in all their deals? >> He's not at any house. >> No, he's not over there. >> He's not over there either. >> And I will pop him in his house again. And I don't give a damn who don't like that. Well, again, all I need you to do is come here so I can get your side of the story. I'm not talking to you over the phone about this. >> Well, I'm on my way as quick as traffic. I was tired of doing nothing backwards for a bunch of bigs. All of them all the way across the board from now just standing in front of you all the way all the way down to to a couple of years ago. That's why I told you when he assignates abusive piece I care for my mental capacity. If I don't blow my own brains out, nobody gives a about that over and over and over and over and over and over again. Then I'm the one that's in trouble that >> I never said you were in trouble. >> Neither. I do. But you know me. All I need is your side. And I'm not taking your side over a telephone. We're going to talk person to person. I've never been disrespectful to you. And I'm not trying to be disrespectful now. >> But I'm tired. >> Well, I'm going to make sure tonight that we all get some help. >> My fingers to the bone. >> I got you. Give me a couple minutes. We'll when we she gets here, we'll all talk and we'll figure this out. All right. Is there any weapons in the house? >> No. You mean like no fire? See, that's like kitchen knives and stuff like that. >> I don't mean that. Any guns in the house? >> I don't want to tell you no. And be >> any guns in the house? >> Uh, no. We're We're not allowed to own any firearms anyway. >> Okay. Again, I'm just asking questions. >> That's fine. That's fine. I understand. >> Evening, Miss Quarter. Tell me what happened or not. >> Okay. So, I was sitting in the car. I was on telephone talking to my friend and Kenneth was sitting on the porch and I told my buddy, I said, "Let me go. Let me uh I'm about to order some food for Taco Bell." I asked Kristen, "What do you want?" She told me. I said, "Okay." And I was just going to order it on the app and go pick it up. Kenneth was sitting up on the porch. I said, "Baby, what do you want?" "My usual." I said, "You want a bean burrito?" "Yeah." "And I want my tablet." I said, "Well, I don't know why you're talking to me that way. And if you keep on, you going to eat cereal. You're not getting nothing from Taco Bell." He got up off the porch and he went to walk this way. I said, "Where you going?" "Wherever I want to." I said, "No, you're not. You about to take your back in there and clean your room." And he walked by, my door was open. I was just sitting like in my seat smoking, talking on fogs. And he walked by and he slammed my door on my leg first. And I said, "Okay." And I told my friend, I said, "Landers, let me call you back in a minute. Let me handle this." So when I went to get out my car, he took off running that way. I said, "Well, I'm going to give him to the end of the road. Calm down. Come back." And I hollered up the road. You better not go no further than the end of run lane. Well, then I seen him go to turn left. Kirstston started walking behind them. I said, "Well, I'll wait to order food, whatever." I drove down there. Kirstston turned around and she was walking back this way. Well, as I was driving down there, he was walking up Arnold. I got right there, I don't know, a little past that trailer right there. And I stopped my car right there in the middle of the street and I said, "Kenneth." He kept walking. So, I drove on behind him and then I parked like down toward the end of the road. I went to get out and he went to run this way and I said, "You better get you behind in my car now." And he was like, "You right in the middle of the street." And I said, "That's enough." and he he ran around my car and like back toward me and I went to grab him like this and he started running backwards and at that point he was like going backwards toward 204. So, I started walking faster toward him and he fell. And when he fell, I don't know. I I seen like a scrape on his arm when we were back there. And I guess he his arm, but he started going like bam, bam, bam on the ground. And I reached down and I grabbed him by his shirt and yanked him up. And then I grabbed him by his arm and I put it in the backseat of my car. Drove down here. We got here and I said, "Now get your behind out and go in there. You're not getting no electronics back." And at this point, you're not getting them back at all. Never. You wait till you're 18 years old. Whoever you want to. And of course, I was and he hates me and all that. That's fine. Say whatever you need to say, but go your to your room. Well, instead of going to his room, he took off that way. >> I knew he was on the back porch. So, I yelled, "Kevin, he come down. He grabbed him." When he grabbed him, I was like, "Let me handle it." You know, and he he left. He went walking. And Kenneth was steadily cussing me, cussing me, cussing me. But I know he'll get off. You know what I'm saying? So every time he told me you I popped him in his mouth. That's why his lips busted. >> He said it probably three times and I backhanded him. Pie, stop. Stop calling me that. Stop telling me I'm your mama. If you want to calm down and talk to me, that's fine. But you're not going to keep disrespecting me. He then started punching me in the side of my face and in my neck here. And I grabbed him by his shirt and I put him on his behind on the ground right there. It was right at the steps. That's when Nikki come walking through the woods and when he got on the ground, he kicked me in my leg a couple of times and I put my foot on him like this. I wasn't stomping him or nothing. I was holding him down like this and I told him, "You better calm down. I will just let me go." I told Kirsten he he went in my closet. We had his phone locked in my closet. He went in there and stole the phone the other morning when I took her to school and we ain't recovered it since. So I told Kirsten, "Get the phone." So she went and she found the phone and I busted the phone to nothing. Okay, >> it's my phone. I paid for it. Uh, and I threw it in the backyard. It's still back there in the backyard to my knowledge. He then told me, "I'll calm down." I said, "Get your up and go to your room and go clean your room." And he said, "I will." I checked before I left. I went and placed the order for Taco Bell. Got clothes on cuz I only had on a night gown. And I checked before I left. He was in his room. I said, "You going to clean your room?" Yeah. When I come in, he as I was leaving, Kirsten was on her bike. She had done rode to him. And as I was leaving, I yelled out and told him, "Go to the house. Get us at the house." So, I don't know if he ended up sneaking out the back door or what before he made it back here, but I was on the phone with him whenever you pulled up here. To his knowledge, he was still in his room cleaning his room. I don't know what I was going down on down there. I just pulled up on it. He was sitting in the back of the ambulance. I didn't call because I don't ever know when y'all were on. Y'all are the only two that ever offered me any kind of assistance. Every other officer that's ever been here tells me there's nothing we can do. I don't know why you're wasting police resources. find figure out something else. You two are the only two that would have ever offered any kind of any resolve even as far as sitting them down in your car and talking to them. And he even I even threatened to call the police. He said, "I don't give a you and the police." And just like I I had it up to here. >> We're going to preede from from this. >> Oh, yeah. Monday. That's >> Well, I'm I'm not worried about what Monday happened. I I'm only worried about [snorts] today. >> But it's all Yeah. It's evolved from Monday cuz I took his electronics on Monday being taken. It's bomb. I'm not listening to that stupid. It's him showing up at my house with a total stranger at that dart. Thank the Lord Jesus that he got with a decent person who >> I was in the shower on Monday when he left >> and waited till he was in my house and made sure he was safe before they left >> getting ready to go to work. >> First thing I did was hug him and I said, "Kenneth, was that one of your neighbors? Do you know that person?" No, but they were a good guy. And I was like, "Lucky for you." And I gave him a big hug and I said, "What's going on? Come on, let's go back here and talk. Just me and you." >> She called me and I didn't even know he had left on a Monday night. I was in the shower getting ready to go to work. Don't play with me. I'm getting ready to go to work. She said, "He is sitting on the foot of my bed. He just showed up here with a guy named Mickey." That's what he said his name was. She didn't >> She didn't meet the dude or nothing. >> That's what he said his name was. >> But that's what Kenneth told her his name was. And I didn't even know he had left Monday because I took his electronics that light. >> And I do know an older man that plays a guitar by the name of Mickey that used to live over off of Blue Gill. I don't know where the man lives now. His wife was a bus driver. >> He's an older gentleman. And the man, whoever they were, they didn't give me time to thank them. Yeah. Chastise him for having the child in the car or nothing. I think they kind of felt like I don't want to get chewed out for being a good Samaritan here, you know. But thank God they were a decent person. But it was I'm I'm sicking away. My mom >> bothered with him since Monday. >> I I'm giving him the opportunity counseling to do. >> Kenneth is on medicine. Kenneth >> Oh, he's refusing to take that. I've watched him spit out in the trash and told him, "Come back in here and take one." >> No. >> Kenneth is mildly autistic. >> He's in the same clothes that he was at her in at her house on Monday. He refuses to shower. He don't want to do nothing but eat. Throw his trash all over. It's all over my house. >> That's why he came home Monday night. And I gave him the option to take a shower and stay at my house. Y'all know, I mean, I know you do, that I've got Tommy, which is, thank the Lord, on medication now and being treated for mental illness and everything's good there. >> I heard he was doing good. >> Yes, he is working. >> Pretty decent. >> Working, not you know what I'm saying? Not No, he's doing >> He even told me that. >> You don't want to be homeless. You know, my little brother was strung out real bad. He lost his mind. >> And Kenneth said, "I'd rather be homeless than deal with my mom." But my little brother told him, "Go stay outside on the porch on the coldest night." And if you make it all night long, then I want you to wait until it's cold and raining. And then you tell me if that's the life you'd rather live. Your mom is not bad to you. How many 13 year olds do you know that have their own television in their own tablet? They're on. And I don't I don't have rules about how long he can be on it or none of that. Just do your He's He hasn't to my knowledge, he hasn't logged into school in the last 3 days. He's absolutely refused. And he sat on YouTube on his Chromebook from the school all day long. But what am I supposed to do? wait on an officer to show up to try to get me for truency. No place. He's got a mental health appointment tomorrow and I will be requesting that he be put in impatient. She wanted to impatient him around Christmas and I refused to let her do it because it was Christmas time. But I've had enough. He He keeps a knife in his bedroom. He's threatened to come and stab me in the middle of the night. He's out of control. I I know things are different than when we were kids. My mama could literally me >> and and bring me back to life and want to be done about it. >> The only other >> and it's different, but it ain't going to be that different. I can tell you all of you with that I don't even know if I mentioned to you the other day. He's got some girlfriend on this roadblocks. I think it's called >> is what it's called. I'm not sure, but it's some video >> and I deleted that off the tablet. and she's in another state and he loves her and they're going to be together and they don't care what their parents say and if they have to and that's why we don't know what's going on down here. But right, >> did he try to hop a train? Cuz that's what he threatened to do. He's going to get on a train and he's going to go and find her and they're going to live happily ever after as hobos. Too much >> game time. >> So you said you backhanded him. How did you backhand them? >> I just went with the ends of my fingers like that. So, what you're telling me is the tip of your fingers >> busted his lip cuz it tooth. Sure did. >> It's busted pretty bad now. I've seen it. >> What he's done since he's left here. >> All right. I I don't look self-inflicted. >> But I popped him like that with the back of my tips of my fingers right there. Just like that in his mouth. >> It looked like something more than a smack on with the tip of your fingers. >> I did popped him with the tips. >> They got fat lips anyway. They mama. >> No. No. There's difference between >> got full lips. There's there's difference between having a full lip >> and the side of your your lip being swoll from being hit. >> That's my biggest issue right now. He admitted to falling and he said that's how he scraped his um his arm. He admitted to that. My biggest problem is his fat lip and he said he was strangled. Those are my big problems right now. >> Strangled. >> Yeah. >> By hugging him. >> He was holding him. >> He kept before he left. But you both told me just a few minutes ago you had you said you had no involvement when I first got here and that you were in the backyard. >> I didn't know how it started. >> No, it Yeah, it did. It started out here. He had no involvement. >> You told me you had no involvement. That you were in the backyard. You didn't know what happened. >> I just told you when he first went back there, he grabbed him like this >> so that I could get to him. And I told him, "Let him go. I'll handle it." And he left. >> Okay. >> He did not He was not strangled. >> I'm just asking question. I just said that because whenever I was holding my foot on him, but I literally >> Where were you holding your foot on him? >> On the back porch. >> But what part of his body? >> Right here. >> Okay. What I need you to do now, turn around. Place your hands behind your back. You're under arrest for battery DVA or family violence in the children in the first degree. >> How am I under? Sir, listen. >> Turn around. Don't turn around and place your hands behind your back. >> Hear me, please, for two seconds. That's >> I'm going to ask you again, Miss Carter, place your hands behind your back. >> Please, please, just hear me here. >> And again, >> I have gallbladder disease. Will you handcuff me in the front, please? >> That's all I'm asking. Okay, we can do that. You're still under arrest for family violence and domestic violence. >> He can children. >> He's 13 years old. >> And he's 180 almost 18. >> And you just told me that you punch hit him so hard in his mouth. >> No, I did not. >> It busted his lip in in his mouth. I told you. >> And then you told me he is to be placed >> he's going to be I'm calling Department of Children and Family and going to probably hopefully have him picked up and cursed and picked up tonight. >> I hope so. I hope so, sir, because this is a never- ending battle. And I get that. But you can't your kids you can't step on you can't step. >> You cannot them so hard that they're bleeding from the mouth. You cannot step on your children. >> That is hurting him. I was trying. >> You cannot do those things. I told you I placed them on his body. >> Let's have a seat. >> And he laid down >> again. You You can't do that. >> Please hear me. >> All right. You know me, Miss Porter. Miss Porter. >> And I do. Please, please don't speak. >> And you and you've called me several times and I've came out here and helped you every time, have I not? >> But tonight, you went too far. >> I didn't know. >> You did me. >> I don't know. >> You cannot. And I agree. But that's where you call me. You cannot your children >> like that. He is 13. No, you didn't. I did. >> I seen his mouth. His whole swollen is busted. We're going to have a seat. >> Please don't arrest me. >> You're going to jail tonight. All right, move over. >> I need I need you to hear me >> and I understand I have miss quarter. [laughter] >> I need help. I need >> All right. You do need help. >> All right. And I've tried to give you >> my seat for me. >> I can't have a seat. >> I don't have a seat. Can [laughter] get my hand on me. >> You got anything else on you? Yes. >> You want You want to bring your phone with you? Hand me that. So you have phone numbers? Yes. >> You got anything else in your bra? >> I don't. >> No ladders, nothing out. Miss Quarter, I don't. George, listen to me. Miss Quarter. >> He shouldn't be allowed to. >> And I didn't say he can. I need your phone, please. >> That's right. I can't get to it. It's right there. You have my permission to grab his phone. >> But that's where that's where to do. >> Have a seat. There's There's There's things that involve All right. You your child to an agree and I'm telling you again. I'll pop him in his mouth again. >> And I'm not saying you can't listen to me, Miss Quarter. I'm not saying you can't you can't pop their mouth, but you can't them so hard that it you again, Miss Quarter, >> I don't believe that you hit him with your fingers. >> I did. Sir, I'm telling you I swear >> cuz his lip is busted bad. >> All right. And swole up. >> You're charging me with a my kids and I didn't know how to >> miss I understand. Miss, stop and listen to me. I understand that what you believe that you did tonight that you needed to do. >> All right. But you can't control children like that. >> Can I have THEM ARRESTED FOR THREATENING TO ME UP? >> WHO? >> MR. CARTER. WELL, I'M NOT TRYING TO CONSOLE MY GRANDDAUGHTER. PLEASE, I'M BEGGING YOU. PLEASE LET MY MAMA GO. PLEASE, >> BABY. He's got to do what he's got to do. >> Could you please LET ME SAY BYE TO HER? >> What's going on? >> Uh, I don't want her. >> Let's Let's step inside. >> I don't want her here. She's getting lippy. >> He's angry cuz I have the keys. >> I love you. >> Plain and simple. >> Cuz it's her car and the damage to it. He did. >> Your daughter's already freaking out cuz what I have to do as far as this. Do you want to follow her into to go to jail tonight? >> How would I go to jail? >> For what? You said to her. >> I told her I didn't want her in here. >> And what else? You said you're going to or something. >> No, I No, I didn't tell her. No, I said I don't want you here. Don't >> I can I can I can handle that, but you can ask me to get rid of her instead of trying to start some little crap. >> You know what I mean? Your daughter don't need that, right? >> No. >> So, let's not have this tonight. Correct. >> Correct. >> We're going to play nice. All right. Until your daughter's good. I'm going to tell her to leave. She admits to backhanding him in the mouth multiple times. >> I don't have nothing on him. >> I just wanted you to be aware that he's not going to threaten me. >> And I dealt with that. >> I haven't done anything to him. I'm here for my grandchildren. The woman was charged with endangering a dependent and battery first offense.