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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Seems to be a rash of duplicate posts lately. People banging on the Post key during slow times, I suppose. Seems like it would be relatively easy for JimRob to program them out of existence.
Wow. No wonder I haven’t been on here in a while.
Best she can do huh? Well her job here at home is waiting for her upon her return. She works full time at a local nursing home.
May you be blessed enough to have someone like her hold your hand when you are old and frail.
I raised mine better.
I am amazed and jealous.
We have, on this thread, a number of PRONOUNCEMENTS from people who have no ties to Phoenix, the Phoenix PD or prosecutors office, the young girl or her family, Child Services, the case investigators or any source of factual information.
I wish I had these seemingly gifted insights.
“I don’t think this was an accident either.”
What makes you think it was on purpose? I suppose it is possible that some diabolical person could do something like this on purpose and then claim it was an accident, but if they were going to go to all that trouble it seems that they would come up with a better scheme, one not likely to get them in trouble or make them look like a horrible person. She had taken her kid to daycare the day before, but for some reason forgot to do it the day this happened. I think it is highly unlikely she did this on purpose. She just screwed up, really bad, and her screw up resulted in some horrible consequences.
I wouldn’t bet it’s never happened. However, brain surgeons and other rich people hire somebody else to take care of their kids. Not an option for a single waitress, no matter where she works.
There was a case about a year or two ago in Southern California where a male University professor left his child in a car all day and the baby died.
Wasn’t there a hospital administrator who did this recently?
Probably run off by false accusations of child, drug, and any other type of abuse she could think of in order to get more child support.
Seriously, there are some people on this thread who really need to take stock of themselves. Maybe they will realize what despicable asses they are. A child is dead, a young woman has to live with that for the rest of her life, and these creeps ( who probably call themselves “Christians”) are trashing her for where she works. I am disgusted.
Wow, you really are an ogre. What do you base your poisonous assumptions on?
No, I think she worked for a school, and she even went back to her car to get donuts for the office staff. She didn't get charged either if I am remembering correctly. Someone will remember what state it was in I'm sure.
We have a tight family and none of us spends out time at places like “Hooters” and thankfully none of our kids are “single moms”.
“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?”
It’s insulting to promote being a “single mom” and working in a place like Hooters. Hasn’t she learned ANYTHING?
Never mind. Being a “single mom” and working at Hooters may be the best she can do ... .
And the father had to say....
Later it turned out that she “valued her freedom more than her son”. So typical of girls this age ... and working in Hooters as a “single mom” will only get her into more trouble. Then again, other “conservatives” here, ahem, think that’s great - LOL!
I bet you do. I'm sure you live a perfect life don't you? Maybe you ought to join up with the WBC & the Phelps family since you seem to be so perfect.
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