A Colorado woman was arrested last week after allegedly being caught on video forcing her 5-year-old son into the trunk of her car.
Chelsea-Rae Trujillo, 33, was located and arrested Thursday evening after a bystander captured a short clip Wednesday of the incident on the 1900 block of N. Norwood Avenue in Pueblo, KOAA 5 reports.
In the video, the bystander yells, “Dude, you cannot put your fucking kid in the fucking trunk.” The pair go back and forth a bit, and she eventually takes the child out of the trunk as the bystander continues to record her.
“You don’t know my child,” the mother says.
After being taken out of the trunk, the boy stands barefoot and continues to cry as his mother argues over her actions in the clip.
“Obviously, I think anybody who looks at that video would be concerned about the welfare of that little boy,” Sgt. 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.”
On Thursday, the mother was arrested for child abuse and a restraining order violation, with police revealing that her child was doing OK and is in good health, and under care of the Colorado Department of Human Services.
“Thank you to everyone who assisted on this case,” the department wrote on Twitter last week.
