Girl ‘told to ride in cardboard box on van’

Washington, October 06: A US woman has been arrested for asking her 13-year-old daughter to ride in a cardboard box on top of a minivan.

Albertville police arrested Jackie Denise Knott, 37, after receiving calls from drivers worried for the child’s safety.

Ms Knott claimed the box was too big for the van, so she told her child to sit in it to stop it blowing off the van’s roof.

She said she wasn’t concerned for her daughter’s welfare, as the box was tied to the van with a coathanger.

“The box was too big to go inside the van and she would be able to hold it down if (the child) was inside the box,” Albertville police told the Sand Mountain Reporter.

Ms Knott has been charged with endangering the life of a child.

A relative at the scene assumed responsibility for the girl.

—Agencies