NorCal Mother Accused Of Slashing Teen Son's Neck
RED BLUFF, Tehama County (CBS/AP) -- A Tehama County woman is in custody for allegedly giving her 13-year-old son an overdose of pills and slashing his throat with a knife.
40-yearold Theresa Marie Garcia-Lewis was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of attempted murder and felony child abuse.
Red Bluff police found the boy after they received a call reporting that he had a cut on his neck and had possibly overdosed on an unknown medication. He was flown to a Chico hospital where his condition was not known, the Record Searchlight said.
Investigators think Garcia-Lewis gave her son a potentially-lethal amount of pills on Monday and then again on Tuesday before his neck was slashed.
She is being held at the Tehama County jail on $550,000 bail, but has not yet obtained a lawyer, a jail official said.
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