Posted on 06/23/2004 8:34:20 PM PDT by ambrose
last updated: 6/22/2004
Woman Leaves Child in Hot SUV While Shopping
ANAHEIM — Social workers took custody of a woman's five children on Sunday after she left her 10-month-old son asleep in a locked SUV.
Police were called to the 99 Cents Only store at 2270 E. Lincoln Ave. about 2:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Someone had reported seeing a sleeping child in the Mitsubishi Montero parked outside, while the mother and her four other children, ages 3-6, were shopping, said Anaheim police Sgt. Rick Martinez. The SUV's sunroof had been left open about 6-8 inches, Martinez said.
According to surveillance tape, the child had been alone in the SUV for about 20 minutes when a store employee noticed and was able to get the youngster out through the sunroof, Martinez said.
The child, crying, sweating and hot to the touch, was brought to the store office, where police and paramedics were summoned, Martinez said.
After shopping for about 45 minutes, the mother -- whose name was withheld -- and her other children returned to the vehicle, but the baby had been taken inside by then, the sergeant said.
The woman locked the other four children in the SUV, then went back into the store to look for her youngest child, Martinez said.
Social workers were called and a decision was made, with a supervising officer at the scene, to issue a misdemeanor citation to the mother and to remove the children from her custody temporarily, Martinez said.
Sometimes mamas are creeps.
Words fail me
Don't be a fool - this is clearly the SUV's fault!
Anyone can be a mother but it takes someone special to be a mommy.
I have a sign like that but it is for fathers. I thought it appropriate to change it to mother in this instance. While in the store she should have shopped for some common sense. Thank God someone saw the baby and got it out of there. Lord, spare the children.
ditto
It was the '99 cent' store. You get what you pay for. :o/
unfortunately, this issue has to be publicized every summer, all over again.
Some people have plum manure for brains.
And guess what? They get to vote!
My thought too, would anyone specify the car type if she did this in another car.
"Woman Leaves Child in Hot Fuel Cell Car While Shopping"
The Libertarian ideologues would claim that the store employee was being a busy-body, that no crime was committed, that the employee ought to be charged with burglary and kidnapping, and people should just mind their own business unless and until the baby was actually harmed.
You took the words right out my mouth.
and they vote DEMOCRAT.
It's amazing that some $0.99 item is valued more than the life of her own child.
You know, it probably had to do with nothing more than what the headline writer thought would sound & look good on the layout page..
Let me help. To quote my father, "She doesn't have the brains that God gave a goat".
If more and more people drive hot fuel cell cars slowly in the fast lane, then maybe we'd see those headlines, too. ;-)
The Libertarian ideologues would claim…
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