Posted on 01/26/2024 4:44:30 PM PST by Morgana
A mother who brought her toddler son to Walmart wearing nothing but a diaper in freezing weather has been charged with child neglect.
Kambria Gabrielle Darby, 26, was arrested in the car park of the store in Byram, Mississippi, a suburb of Jackson, about 10.30am on January 17.
The two-year-old boy was still 'freezing and shaking' even after another shopper bought him a long-sleeved shirt and pants and dressed him in the store.
Police put the boy in a warm car and called paramedics to assess him. Child Protective Services later took him away and released him to a relative, along with his two siblings.
Darby was charged with contributing to the neglect or delinquency of a child and booked into Hinds County Detention Center.
She faces up to six years in jail if convicted.
Temperatures plunged to below 20F that morning as a winter storm swept across the US, but the toddler had no shirt, socks, or shoes.
Felicia Nicole, a Walmart worker who confronted the mother along with other shoppers, said she was sacked after five years of service for posting video of the boy online.
'I don't feel sorry for her, she needs to be in jail... she shouldn't have done that to her baby,' she told DailyMail.com about the charges against Darby.
'Walmart doesn't care about their employees! I was only trying to help.'
After she was released on bail, Darby wrote an 656-word Facebook post defending herself, claiming she was being 'done like Jesus was'.
Attached to the post were 54 photos of her children that she claimed proved she was a good mother and not 'neglectful' or 'mentally ill'.
They included two of her kids at Disney World, posing with presents under a Christmas tree, and sitting on pumpkins on a farm.
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God bless that other woman who came over and dressed him, with grandma authority —”Here, baby, put your leg in here. Now the other leg!” Even though she was a total stranger to the child, he was not resisting her at all and seemed glad for the help.
The photos of the kids are very cute. Was the mother on drugs that day? If so, she needs a rehab, stat. This seems out of character. Hope for the kids’ sake, since she is not married to the father, that the agencies work something out for all of their sakes, the mom and the kids
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“she was sacked .... for posting video of the boy online.”
I agree with Walmart.
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