Woman accused of duct taping 5-year-old child’s hands behind his back and over his eyes

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Warren County Sheriff’s deputies arrested  a Bowling Green woman on accusations that she duct taped a five-year-old child’s hands behind his back and placed tape over his eyes.

Deputies were called Tuesday night to 287 North Campbell Road Lot 53 where they met with Amanda Coon who told deputies that sometime last week, her boyfriend’s mother Sara Smith, 51, duct taped Coon’s youngest child’s hands behind his back and over his eyes, according to Smith’s arrest citation.

Deputies interviewed witnesses who said Smith had taped the child’s hands behind his back. One witness said Smith taped the child’s hands behind his back twice last week and taped over his eyes, according to the citation.

Smith at first denied the allegations but later stated she did tape the child’s hands and eyes but in a “joking manner,” according to the citation.

Smith is charged with first-degree criminal abuse and was lodged in the Warren County Regional Jail.