A Cobb County woman accused of sitting on her 2-year-old son's head was recently indicted.
The grand jury charged Susan Elizabeth Kelley of Kennesaw with first-degree child cruelty March 23.
Her attorney Maddox Kilgore said Tuesday he would enter a plea of not guilty whenever Kelley has an arraignment hearing.
Kilgore represented Justin Ross Harris, a Cobb County man who was sentenced to life in prison for killing his 22-month-old son Cooper by leaving him to die in a hot car.
Kilgore said that Kelley’s boy has fully recovered from the May 11 incident.
According to an arrest warrant, Kelley placed a towel on a wooden dining chair, put her son’s head on the towel and then sat on him with all her body weight for about an hour.
She told police she sat on her son to “gain ‘submission’ from the child,” the warrant said.
The boy became unresponsive and was rushed to Egleston Hospital in Atlanta.
At the time, Kelley was arrested and then released on a $55,220 bond.
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