After an officer found the woman smothering the 4-year-old child face-down in a muddy embankment, officials said, she tried to fight his attempts to save the child.
A Yuba County woman is facing criminal charges after being accused of trying to drown her 4-year-old son in an irrigation canal and attacking an officer who tried to intervene, the California Highway Patrol said.
While checking the vehicle, the officer heard screaming about 100 yards away, where he found Green in some weeds next to an irrigation canal. She was described in the report as “extremely combative.”“Green was acting irrationally and appeared to be under the influence of a controlled substance,” officials said.
The officer jumped into the canal and was able to free the child from under the water and pull him away from his mother. Green attempted to pull both of them back into the water as the officer tried to scramble up the embankment, the CHP said.