Mother Of The Year Candidate Uses Her 14 Year Old Daughter As A Shield From Armed Police

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A Missouri City woman, who is accused of using her teenage daughter as a shield to protect herself from law enforcement, remains behind bars.

Tenescha Henry, 35, is charged with evading arrest, child endangerment, and fraud.

Last Thursday night, Precinct 8 Deputy A. Peters responded to assist Webster police in pursuit of a theft suspect wanted by Bellaire police.

Peters said she became the lead unit and pursued the car for 25 miles with speeds exceeding 100 mph.

"At a point, (Henry) did end up exiting and going the wrong way on the service road of I-45 and then ultimately went the wrong way on the local road of Airport Boulevard," Peters recalled.

The pursuit ended in the parking lot of a strip center on Cullen Boulevard near Beltway 8 when Henry ran out of gas, according to Pct. 8.

"She essentially got out of the vehicle, walked around to the front of the car, opened the passenger side door," Peters said. "She grabbed an unknown female out of the passenger side and proceeded to grab her, take her out of the car where she, unfortunately, put her in what we would call a chokehold and put her in front of law enforcement."

At the time, deputies on the scene did not know that the child in the chokehold was Henry's 14-year-old daughter.

"At that point, I 100% believed that we had a hostage situation," Peters said.