Grandmother arrested for driving with 3-year-old strapped to roof of car

Monroe County Sheriff's Office deputies were called to the Publix supermarket on Tuesday and arrested 54-year-old Brenda Bouschet, of Lake Worth, after she was spotted driving around with her three-year-old granddaughter on the roof of her car.

Bouschet told deputies she didn't understand why she was wrong to place the 3-year-old girl on the roof of the car and drive her white 2006 Lexus around the parking lot. Bouschet said she was just giving the child some air and letting her have fun.



Deputies had to explain to her the dangers of letting the child ride on top of the car and even had to explain that the child is required to sit in a car seat.

Bouschet said yesterday she would never let anything hurt her granddaughter. She says she was driving at "snail-speed" and holding the child's leg. She has been released from jail. The child has been returned to her mother.