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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How can a mother be so detached from her child?
I can’t imagine “forgetting” a child is in the backseat like this ... .
How can a mother be so detached from her child?
I can’t imagine “forgetting” a child is in the backseat like this ... . This “forgetting” is happening way to often with death as the result.
How can a mother be so detached from her child?
I can’t imagine “forgetting” a child is in the backseat like this ... . This “forgetting” is happening way to often with death as the result.
7 hours? Holy Moley?
Police say the mother returned to her car after work and discovered the child. People in the parking lot at the restaurant ran to help when they heard the mother scream and a passerby called 911.
Firefighters were unable to revive the child and pronounced the boy dead at 5:15 p.m.
Police spokesman Sgt. Joel Tranter said, "(The boy's mother) was visibly upset. She forgot the child was in the car until she unlocked it."
Are you trying to make it look deliberate? I mean, obviously the girl's not a rocket scientist but it seems evident this was unintentional.
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No, nothing intentional.
Come on, she works at Hooters. It is not like she is intelligent enough to remember to take the bay to daycare. Not only that she spends the next seven hours with other Hooters girls and customers who are just as stupid as she.
Come on, she works at Hooters. It is not like she is intelligent enough to remember to take the bay to daycare. Not only that she spends the next seven hours with other Hooters girls and customers who are just as stupid as she.
It’s hot where she is headed too.
It’s hot where she is headed too.
All boobs, no brains
Tomkow do you know this waitress
Stupid people are dangerous.
Until this happened she probably would have said the same thing.
Are you trying to make it look deliberate? I mean, obviously the girl's not a rocket scientist but it seems evident this was unintentional.
It was deliberate and intentional. She had no daycare, so leaving the child in the car was intentional.
Are you trying to make it look deliberate? I mean, obviously the girl's not a rocket scientist but it seems evident this was unintentional.
It was deliberate and intentional. She had no daycare, so leaving the child in the car was intentional.
Because they're too busy putting PC spin (lies) on everything.
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