The AJC offers up an article about this candidate for mother of the year. Thirty-six year old, Sherrie Leigh Thayer was with her 10 year old daughter when she was busted for allegedly shoplifting $60 worth of groceries from a local Publix.

"She jumped in her car and the little girl tried getting in but before she got in she skidded off and she ran over her little daughter," witness Derrick Sheifer told WSB-TV. [...]

According to the arrest warrant, Thayer tried to flee on foot without checking on her injured daughter.

The article had noted that the fifth grader was in good condition at a local hospital, but now they simply say she's being treated for injury to her liver and "other internal injuries".

Mom was apparently also under the influence, because DUI was one of the many charges filed against her. She was caught when witnesses blocked her van from escaping, and held her until police arrived.

(Incidentally, this happened at the Publix on the corner of Shallowford and Sandy Plains in Cobb County. It is about one mile from where I used to live, and I used to shop in that Publix weekly.)