At their home, James was in his mother's car when a family acquaintance, Lonnie Belt, showed up and beat his mother.
The mother's sister reports the following:
-The mom was "hit in the head two or three times her hands got tied behind her back...she got blind folded and then she was put in to a vehicle and she could hear James going, 'mommy you're bleeding,'."
-When the man stopped the vehicle, the mother's blindfold was taken off and her hands were untied.
-As the mother was trying to get away, Belt shoved her and she fell down a 100 foot drop off.
Crews Search For Missing Jackson Co. Boy
Investigators are not releasing a lot of information at this point, however family tells LEX 18 the boy's mother is in the hospital recovering from serious injuries. We're told the last time she saw James, he was in the woods and she doesn't know where he went.
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