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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While you’re at it, please remind her that the oft-quoted dismal statistics re children of single mothers are overwhelmingly due to single mothers who are on welfare by choice (often 2nd/3rd/4th generation welfare addicts), eagerly jump at any opportunity for a hand-out, and many who are substance abusers, and having children by a revolving door procession of men with long rap sheets. Kids tend to turn out a lot like their parents, no matter how many they have.
Most smaller cars are designed to crush the front end and rear seats, before crushing the front seats, in a serious accident. This is another example of a combination of safety regulations helping to promote fatal accidents.
I can’t imagine it either, especially in Phoenix, where you wouldn’t leave an adult in a car for ten minutes.
When my son was less than two, we took him to Phoenix, where his sister was competing in a swim meet over Memorial Day week-end. I ended up stuck in the air conditioned hotel room for three days because he was unable to tolerate the high temperature outside.
"It's also my understanding that other family members, perhaps, had taken the child away from her for brief periods of time," Tranter said. "They had concerns."
I truly believe the 'pro-choice' crowd in America has led to this wanton disregard for the welfare of children.
It isn't a far leap especially that of 'partial birth abortion' to leaving a child in a car to roast.
It seems that the closer to birth a child is, the more worthless they are perceived.
So where was the father?
“How can a mother be so detached from her child?”
I think the following about covers it;
“Ashly Duchene, 22, left her son in her car when she arrived at the north Phoenix Hooters restaurant where she works”
Too bad the family didn’t have more than “concerns” about the boy’s welfare.
I've got one word: Arizona.
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This is troubling. Still, most 17 month old babes can cry and scream. I’m surprised that no one heard the child. Another unintended consequence of tight buckle ups and the law not allowing front seat seating.
It’s the money.
Working at places like that, the women are expected to flirt and act interested with all the men who come in
That means after a few drinks, the guys think the pretty young sweet things actually like them, only, all they want is their money.
The only way to get cheap money to stay ahead with no college or training is the military, hooters, or strip clubs.
She most likely had enough class to avoid the strip clubs but not enough class to avoid Hooters.
And not enough class to get daddy to take care of his son once in a while it seems, either. Her Mom and Dad most likely tried to make her grow up and do it herself, tragically, for it fell apart.
Maybe she was just not too bright and knew flirting could get her even with her bills.
Either way, not marrying the clown her fathered her child left her in this spot, and she made some bad decisions concerning her life and child. It is an awful shame she had to learn it this way.
You are one lucky ishabibble.
Marriage isn’t some big magic band-aid. It’s doubtful that the father of this child is the sort who would have improved the situation by being married to the mother, or even just present in the home. Getting knocked up was obviously a mistake, given that she didn’t want a child and was ill-equipped to raise one, but it’s very likely that marrying the father would only have compounded the problem.
What do you mean “she had no daycare?” If you read the article you will see that she dropped the boy off at daycare the day before but this day for some reason she did not. Perhaps she had her head in the clouds and just forgot?
This is perhaps one reason dark-tinted windows are outlawed in TX. Still, I don’t see how this could happen.
“Working at HOOTERS?
How sad ... and worse yet, you are proud of that ... “
It’s just a temporary waitress job to make money while she’s stays with her child who is in an out of town hospital. What’s the big deal? She could be doing a whole lot worse. Why do you have to be so insulting?
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