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Toddler Dies After Hooters Mom Forgets Child in Hot Car
Fox News ^ | October 31, 2007

Posted on 10/31/2007 9:54:09 AM PDT by rawhide

PHOENIX — The mother of a 17-month-old boy found dead after he was left unattended inside a hot car for at least seven hours in a north Phoenix Hooters restaurant was arrested on one felony count of negligent homicide.

Police say the woman, Ashly Duchene, 22, left her son in her car when she arrived at the north Phoenix Hooters restaurant where she works at about 10 a.m. Tuesday. When she returned to the car after her shift at nearly 5 p.m., her son was dead.

Efforts to revive the boy by witnesses, officers and firefighters were unsuccessful. Police Sgt. Joel Tranter said temperatures hit nearly 90 degrees Tuesday, but that it would have been more than 100 degrees inside the car.

FOX 10 Phoenix reports the baby's mother had planned to drop the child off at childcare before heading to work at a restaurant near Bell Road and Interstate 17.

Instead, authorities say the mother went to work with the child still inside the car.

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The baby was in a car seat in the backseat of a Honda Civic, which had very dark tinted windows. Officials believe that made him unnoticable to people going in and out of the restaurant and a car wash next door, the Republic reported.

It's unknown if the mother will face any charges in the child's death. Tranter said situations like this are handled "on a case-by-case basis."

So far, there have been no arrests.

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To: Mr Rogers

I’m not going to ask the details about how one collects sheep’s pee...but I place that job above tech support ;)


221 posted on 10/31/2007 7:22:42 PM PDT by Sender (You are the weapon. What you hold in your hand is just a tool.)
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To: Gene Eric; gracesdad
I think you guys that are jumping down nmh’s throat might be suffering from ADD. We can take the defense of Hooter chics to the level of honorable successful strippers but I’m guessing that’s not what the issue is really all about, is it?

Bingo we have a winner! My oh my . Get a clue please. Hey what do you do when those Dallas cowgirls come on TV? Cover your eyes or run for the bathroom? No ADD here either thank you maybe over at your house?

222 posted on 10/31/2007 7:25:43 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslim's demands)
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To: Gene Eric; nmh

“We can take the defense of Hooter chics (sic) to the level of honorable successful strippers but I’m guessing that’s not what the issue is really all about, is it?”

Umm, NMH is attacking the intelligence and integrity of ANY woman who has ever worked there and, apparently, any customer. That goes well beyond this specific case, and NMH is WRONG,


223 posted on 10/31/2007 7:27:10 PM PDT by gracesdad
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To: Gene Eric

ADD I knew it. Was it directed to your name? I will make it easy,quick & clear..YES it was.


224 posted on 10/31/2007 7:30:23 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslim's demands)
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To: nmh

What a piece of work you are; remember, what goes around comes around. With your outlook, you’re way overdue!


225 posted on 10/31/2007 7:42:53 PM PDT by Atchafalaya
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To: slynx

You raised a fine person, and I hope I did not come off as an elitist which I am not. I enjoyed this frank discussion./Just Asking - seoul62.......


226 posted on 10/31/2007 7:43:08 PM PDT by seoul62 (e)
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To: xsmommy
i just heard the policeman on John Gibson’s show. this girls appears to have been charged and is in jail because she was heard to have commented in the past few days/weeks about wishing she was not a parent. Gibson asked if that was a factor in her charging and the cop said, yes. So i guess they are thinking it may have actually been intentional in this case.

Well that's interesting. The principal who left her child in the car to die had complaints made against her and was warned. No arrest for her.

227 posted on 10/31/2007 7:51:01 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: gracesdad; nmh

>> Umm, NMH is attacking the intelligence and integrity of ANY woman who has ever worked there and, apparently, any customer.

I know what nmh said and I’m not endorsing what nmh said, but still yet, nmh is not wrong to pass judgment on what nmh apparently views as the exploitation of young women. Would it bother you if we were talking about strippers instead of Hooter chics? And if it did, what’s your problem with strippers and the people that patronize them?


228 posted on 10/31/2007 7:51:16 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: nmh

When I was raising mine at least one was up in the front seat. When they started making folks put these babies in the backseat this is when we started hearing all of these stories of the little ones being left in the car.


229 posted on 10/31/2007 7:59:56 PM PDT by Faith-Hope
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To: TigersEye

Its sign up night for the WBC here I think...


231 posted on 10/31/2007 8:14:24 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslim's demands)
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To: Faith-Hope
“...When they started making folks put these babies in the backseat...”

Yet again the law of unintended consequences. They could be in the front seat except for those blasted air bags that jack up the price of each car and do no good if the adult wears his seat-belt.

232 posted on 10/31/2007 8:15:18 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: pandoraou812; slynx

>> ADD I knew it. Was it directed to your name? I will make it easy,quick & clear..YES it was.

You had 5 names on that post and I didn’t understand the context of your remarks? I was responding to one of the first few posts in thread after I read the article. I have no issue with slynx. I do, however, have issue with the neglect and abuse of children as described in my comments. Don’t twist my words.


233 posted on 10/31/2007 8:15:41 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: nmh
To: slynx

Is that ALL your daughter or whoever it is, is capable of?

Working at HOOTERS?

How sad ... and worse yet, you are proud of that ... .

33 posted on 10/31/2007 1:23:47 PM CDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)

To: slynx

She’ll make some swell friends working in HOOTERS as a SINGLE mother no less.

Never mind ... maybe this IS the BEST she can do.

34 posted on 10/31/2007 1:24:45 PM CDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)


Wow, I really think that those are the nastiest posts I have ever read on FR. And to a fellow FReeper?

*shakes head*

234 posted on 10/31/2007 8:19:18 PM PDT by AnnaZ (I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
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To: Grunthor
In my youth, I was known to frequent places like strip clubs and Hooters. While the Hooters girls stayed clothed, there wasn’t much difference in the intellect department.

This is funny. LOL The most obvious difference between the girls who strip and the guys that watch them is the girls are getting paid and the guys are paying them. Talk about a major indicator of intellect. ROTFLOL

The other big difference is the women can put clothes on but the guys will be idiots their entire lives.

235 posted on 10/31/2007 8:25:13 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: AnnaZ
You're only at post #34. You ain't read nasty yet.

It's Fred Phelps night on FR.

236 posted on 10/31/2007 8:26:52 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Gene Eric; slynx
Wrong Gene...post # 214 had 5 names. Not post #224. Stop twisting yourself. It was directed to just YOU.

I too have grandchildren & in your post you didn't know about slynx's daughter or are you now trying to make it look like that? The comments being made to her are uncalled for. Since you say you have a problem with grandparents looking the other way or whatever it was you said well it sure seemed directed at her.

I have a big problem with child abuse in any form just as you do. However I do not & will not look down on any mother who is working at Hooters while her child is in the hospital or even if its not. Its a job. Plain & simple.

You brought up the ADD, & you can't seem to get things correctly.

237 posted on 10/31/2007 8:28:21 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslim's demands)
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To: AnnaZ
“...I really think that those are the nastiest posts...”

Yes and indeed it is the anonymity of the Internet. Can you imagine directly insulting a man and his daughter to his face in such a way? nmh would be all beat up all the time. But face to face such posters are Mort Meeks. But put them at a keyboard and common decency goes out the window.

238 posted on 10/31/2007 8:28:33 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: TigersEye
I am going to bed. The mean comments on this thread are depressing. I’m not shocked at the mean comments just kind of sad that people can be so mean. ~Pandy~
239 posted on 10/31/2007 8:35:55 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslim's demands)
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To: Gene Eric

Red herring. We’re talking about Hooters waitresses, not strippers. Every waiter or waitress worth his or her salt uses personality or whatever to gain tips.


240 posted on 10/31/2007 8:38:35 PM PDT by gracesdad
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