What is the verdict?
Crazy. If she had the car in sight—? Hey, arrest me.
This is insane. Absolutely insane.
It's ALL about the money. They couldn't care one wit about the child.
I expect this kind of authoritarian nonsense in Illinois. When the people are debarred the use of arms the government’s natural inclination is towards tyranny.
bttt
Maybe they wanted her to stay in the car and send her two young daughters out to put the money in. That seems more risky to me.
This is absurd. There should be NO law prohibiting a child from being alone in an OBSERVED vehicle.
Wait. How many women and men have left a child in a car that has DIED, and NOT been prosecuted?
And this POOR mom gets targeted for leaving a child for moments only, to donate to a Christian cause. Right? This smells.
>>...obstructing a peace officer<<
I wasn’t there, but this may be the one that has teeth, depending on what she did.
No jury is going to convict her. I wonder if the reason she got charged at all really had more to do with “obstructing a peace officer” (perhaps with shoving and/or foul language) than with leaving the child unattended but within sight for a few minutes. On the other hand, this may well be a case where an officer thought he saw a serious situation, got hot under the collar, and then didn’t want to admit he was wrong and back down when he started getting the real picture. The jury will sort it out, but I suspect even if she gave him a nasty shove and hurled obscenities at him, the jury will buy that this was a mother desperate to get back to her toddler, and that the officer shouldn’t have gotten between them.
More awesome police work!, Brilliant!
I heard her attorney on WLSAM. I think they’re going to bore the officer another poopchute.
So do we arrest anyone who fuels their car while leaving their child inside? After all, *gasp* what if the parent has to walk to the cashier window and pay for the fuel?
Not only will no jury convict her, the police dept. and prosecutor’s office should have to pay her attorney fees.
What is the verdict?
If she was donating to Planned Parenthood, this would all go away.
"NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED."
Whether people realize it or not, there is a war going on against the generally law-abiding taxpayer. Its much easier to squeeze the compliant than go after real criminals.
Another case of a state agency looking to justify their existence.
My boy and his wife lived in Monroeville, AL. One night their 10-year-old son was put to bed, he and a buddy decided to play cop. They climbed out the bedroom window and went into town, shining a flashlight into storefronts "looking for robbers".
The cops brought the kids home and the parents thought that was the end of it. The next day a case worker came around to "investigate". My boy told him that he put the kid to bed and that was it. "So, you left the chid unattended. We'll have to look into this." Luckily the wife knew the mayor's wife and one phone call scuttled that gambit but it scared the yell out of the wife as the guy was talking about taking the kid. They left the state soon after.
This is just another stupid law. If the child died then prosecute for negligence, manslaughter, or whatever. If we had a law for every stupid thing people do, every person would be in jail. The loss of a child is probably the highest price to pay.