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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Mom, leaves baby in parked car, arrested by police, who leave her other kids in a parking lot
Non-sports post. Enter at your peril, avoid at your pleasure.
(This standard tag line would be totally inappropriate if you read the articles.)
“My family was warm and safe and together just doing a little good deed until the Crestwood Police arrived to help” said the father Tim Janecyk. “My wife is jailed, our child is taken from us, and they call her a bad mom but they abandon three little girls right there.”
AP reports that the weather conditions were not safe for a baby to be out in.
Interestingly, if you read the two reports, each of which is missing details from the other, but are both quoting the same people, you would have to conclude that in-between the mother being arrested and the husband arriving on the scene to see his wife in the car, the kids wandered away.
And according to this report, you need 10 minutes unsupervised for it to count as endangerment. So, going to a mailbox seems to be ok, as is picking up one kid in school, while leaving your other one in the car.