A Texas man has been charged with attempted capital murder for allegedly chocking his 4-year-old son and leaving him alongside a Texas highway at 3 a.m. after having a "religious expereince."
Suffering neck bruises and covered in cactus spines, the boy, named Angel, was rescued three hours later outside the West Texas town of Sweetwater by a high school coach and his son.
Fox34 TV says the boy's father, Carlos Rico, 22, of Lubbock, turned himself in.
The Lubbock TV station quotes Sweetwater Police Chief Jim Kelly as saying Rico and Angel were headed to Saginaw, Texas, when the father abruptly stopped the car along Interstate 20.
"(H)e had a religious experience and was told to choke his son and leave him on the side of the road, and that's what he did," Kelly says.
Kelly tells the Abilene Reporter-News that Rico "threw the boy out of the car like a bag of garbage."
Rico told police that he had a second "religious experience" in which he "saw a bird on the grill of his truck and it told him his son wasn't dead," Kelly says.
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