Posted on 09/24/2014 9:36:39 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Teen mom drove with 5-month-old baby in trunk to avoid getting ticketed for not having a car seat
A young mother was arrested early Tuesday after she put her 5-month-old baby into the trunk of her car, to avoid getting a ticket for not driving with a car seat.
Broward County, Florida sheriff's deputies first spotted 19-year-old Breona Synclair Watkins driving a car with a headlight out around 1am, when she pulled out 15 feet into an intersection at a red light, and then backed up.
They then attempted to pull her over, but she continued through the green light and another quarter-mile before coming to a stop.
The 14-year-old sitting in the passenger seat said the 2005 Dodge Stratis belong to her mother.
When another deputy showed up and heard crying from the trunk, so they opened it up and found Watkins' 5-month-old laying on a pair of large hedge-cutting shears.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
And I'm old enough to recall when cars didn't even have seat belts, so I find the whole "it's for the children" thing that goes on these days ludicrous.
Listen, I just had surgery and have a lot of “stuff” I’m dealing with. You won’t mind if I don’t give numbers or anything? There was someone else higher up in this thread that said the same thing, maybe they know more than I do about this.
ughhhhh. I can’t sleep tonight, but at least I’m not in pain.
But I am awake enough to wonder if this...person, this...vermin that put her baby in the trunk on top of a cutting instrument, had enough money to get her nails done. Weekly, monthly??? I see she didn’t get her hair done.
You know, the rare times I can’t fall asleep (and I’ve had pain meds tonight that usually make me fall asleep) I lie awake and think. And think. I really need to not do that.
Gee, I wonder why this is news ... in England.
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