Mother Throws Toddler Into Traffic, Father Saves Him

**Tyrael** · 13th-November-2006

Mother Faces Charges After Throwing Toddler Into Traffic

Reported by: Lance Barry
Web produced by: Neil Relyea
Photographed by: Phillip Lee
First posted: 11/11/2006 11:47:58 PM

A Roselawn mother has been charged with doing the unthinkable, throwing her child into the street and oncoming traffic.

It happened early this morning on Seymour Avenue.

Police allege the suspect was involved in a verbal altercation with the young boy's father and that then the child allegedly became part of his mother's rage.

Police say she picked her child up and threw him out onto a busy road.
"I woke up to them arguing in the street," Jermaine Gamble, a witness, told 9News. "He was grabbing his son and she was trying to get her son back."

Just moments before, 21-year-old Rebe Cobbins' son Danontre, thought to be as young as two-years-old, had been thrown onto busy Seymour Avenue.

When 9News asked if the mother seemed to realize what she had done, Gamble responded, "She was crying, saying she was sorry and all that. But the baby's Daddy wasn't having it, he was going to take his son back."

The incident happened at 4:30 a.m. Saturday morning outside Cobbins' apartment complex in the 1600 block of Seymour.

No came to her door Saturday night.

It's not known how close any cars came to hitting the boy.

Gamble told 9News that the boy's father quickly retrieved the child out of the street, and the boy likely didn't even realize what had happened to him.

"The kid is alright," said Gamble. "He wasn't banged up or any thing."

The boy's mother is facing one count of domestic violence and is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday.
She was released from jail on a $5,000 bond

Linky.

The boy's mother is facing one count of domestic violence

This is attempted murder not domestic violence.

**Major Tom** · 13th-November-2006

WTF?

Domestic violence?!

It should be attempted murder.

**shaazam** · 6th-February-2008

The feminist copout laws will come into play here and she will get a smack on the wrist; eventually the courts will grant her custody and her husband will be awarded paying alimony to her

**Rage!!!!!** · 6th-February-2008

It shouldn't take a fucking genius to tell you that she attempted to kill that child!!
Another byproduct of feminist handy work!!!!!!!

**Percy** · 6th-February-2008

Attempted Murder?

That's just kidding. Right?

Reckless endangerment more like. Let's be sensible here.

**LukeSkywalker** · 6th-February-2008

I agree with Tyrael. What she did was attempted murder.

**Alexandra** · 6th-February-2008

At the VERY LEAST reckless endangerment--I'd agree with attempted murder. But honestly, what do you expect to happen when you do something this stupid?

**Kim** · 7th-February-2008

I always put off reading these and then have to brace myself when I do. I literally feel nauseous when I read them. How could any parent do something like that? Things like this, I think more than anything, indicate the depth of how truly wrong things are in our society.

Come on we all know it's a Mothers instinct to throw herself in harmsway to protect and nuture her children.

That's the thing, it should be...it's SUPPOSED to be. I'd like to know when the rest of the world is going to figure out that something is broken or if they'll continue to try and justify and explain away such horrific actions.

**Percy** · 7th-February-2008

I'd like to know when the rest of the world is going to figure out that something is broken

Seriously broken.

But we also have to cast the mote from our eyes before we can see the beam in others' eyes.

Fortunately, I am a clear sighted chap. No motes. And I wear glasses!