Around 2:30 pm Monday afternoon, Rome Police were called to the parking lot of the Citgo convenience store located at the intersection of John Davenport Drive and Martha Berry Boulevard to reports of a child being backed over by a vehicle.
According to the preliminary investigation, an unattended male child, age 15-months, had walked from the nearby motel and was toddling through the convenience store parking lot. As a vehicle attempted to leave the store, the driver was unable to see the small child and back into the toddler. The mother of the child, identified as Holly Kate Hosey, age 31 of Bowden, GA, was arrested on charges of Cruelty to Children (felony) and booked into the Floyd County Jail.
The Floyd County Department of Family and Children Services has taken custody of the injured child who is being treated at a local hospital for severe leg injuries.
