Who Needs a Babysitter When You've Got a Perfectly Good Car?
A 32-year-old Hudson, Fla., woman has been charged with child neglect after she allegedly left her three-month-old baby in the car for a half hour. The question is, why she did that.
Simply, Nora Paulene Leach-Peterson allegedly left her child in the car because he was sleeping and she wanted to enjoy a nice, cold beer on her back porch.
A deputy with the Pasco County Sheriff's office found the child in his car seat covered with a white blanket at about 11:00 a.m. on March 27. The driver's side window of the car was cracked open a few inches and the baby was covered in sweat, he said. (We are talking Florida, here!)
When the deputy asked the baby's mother why she left him in the car, she told him "I only left (him) in the car for approximately half an hour, he was sleeping and I drank one beer," he said. The deputy said he also found a bag of marijuana and a silver pipe next to her beer bottle.
Leach-Peterson, 32, was released Saturday on $10,300 bail after being charged with child neglect, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Source: St Petersburg Times
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Posted by Robert in Missouri on April 9, 2010:
@Jeff in Northern California: Re the hurling, make that two of us.
Posted by Bob in Illinois on April 10, 2010:
Yeah, been to Florida in January, it's hot all year long. First, not to be in her defense but I have done the same thing a time or two but not when my kids were infants and not when the heat in the car would be 180 deg F. The child endangerment comes from the heat factor and the drugs. What worse is that I can't imagine someone having sex with her to produce a kid in the first place. Can we say Eeeewwwww!
Posted by Jennifer in Northern Illinois on May 23, 2010:
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what motherhood is to our next generation. Weep for us!