Social media influencer and mommy vlogger, Kelly Hopton-Jones is facing backlash for making content about running over her toddler son with her car.
In an April 15 post on her @Hillside-Farmhouse Instagram page, Kelly said she accidentally ran over her 23-month-old son, Henry, in her driveway.
She made her post just hours after her son’s tragic accident.
Kelly said her husband helped their daughter into the car and was waving goodbye when Henry ran out of the garage.
“In a matter of seconds, our son was run over by our car. I was driving,” Kelly wrote on Instagram.
Henry was rushed to a hospital and treated for a fractured pelvis.
In her post, the pediatric nurse practitioner included photos of her son recovering in his hospital bed.
Social media users expressed concern that Kelly couldn’t wait to blog about her son’s injuries.
One person wrote on X.com: “How do you ACCIDENTALLY run your kid over?”
Another person wrote: “hopefully she wasn’t under the influence of recording an influencer video when she hit him.”
A third person wrote: “If it were my own kid and I ran over them? Oh my God I don’t even know how I’d live with myself let alone think about making CONTENT???.”
A fourth person commented, “I’m sorry this happened. Creating content from it, the same day it happened… is weird.”
