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We Got A Mom Of The Year Candidate Down In Arkansas
Amber Thompson is a mom in Arkansas. She was born in 1990, meaning she’s about 33–34 in this video (because it seems her birthday is August, and this happened in April), and she already has a seven-year-old, so I guess she was having kids mid-20s, if not sooner. Here’s the video we’re going to work off of:
If you watch that through, when the cops get to her house, it’s actually a pretty nice, large house with nice furnishings and a bunch of kids’ toys in the yard — so initially, you might think, “Oh, solid mom and family here.” In this specific case, you may or may not be right.
It seems like what happened is, the night before this incident, she had a little blow-up with her seven-year-old. The boy may have gone to bed without dinner. She had told him something like, “You’re big enough to get yourself to school,” so when she wasn’t awake in the morning, he got himself prepped and started walking to school. Thing is, the school was over seven miles away. Some farmer guy saw him (that’s the beginning of…