Former students defend Texas mother who put son in car trunk for Covid test

A number of people turned out in Texas Monday to show support for a mother who was charged with endangering a child after locking her 13-year-old son in the trunk of her car to take him for a Covid test. 

Supporters, including former students, hung placards and letters of encouragement on the teacher's home in Jersey Village, Texas, a suburb of Houston. 

Sarah Beam, 41, had driven last week to Houston's Pridgeon Stadium, where people can get tested without getting out of their car. 

She told the site manager that she was there for her son, who had tested positive previously, and explained that she had put him in the trunk of her car so as not to risk being infected herself.