Colorado mum arrested after being filmed ‘forcing son, 5, into boot of her car’ by shocked bystander
A COLORADO mom has been arrested after she was filmed allegedly forcing her five-year-old son into the boot of a car by a shocked bystander.
Chelsea-Rae Trujillo was caught on camera allegedly pushing the boy into the back of her Chevy Malibu in Pueblo on Wednesday afternoon.
A video of the scene reportedly captured by a witness begins with the sounds of a child crying.
The witness is heard yelling: “Dude, you cannot put your f**king kid in the f**king trunk.”
“Dude I was going to take him out, check this out” the woman then says as the trunk is popped back open and the five-year-old boy emerges.
The concerned citizen handed over the footage to police who immediately launched a manhunt.
The 33-year-old was arrested last Thursday evening by officers on suspicion of child abuse and for breaching terms of a restraining order.
Pueblo Police said the boy was found unhurt.
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“Obviously, I think anybody who looks at that video would be concerned about the welfare of that little boy,” Sergeant Franklyn Ortega of the Pueblo Police Department said.
“We saw what we saw in the video, but we need to look at the whole thing, that’s why detectives are involved.”
Police discovered that Trujillo and her son were homeless and were living in the car.