Posted on 12/19/2006 6:02:19 AM PST by WestTexasWend
MIDLAND, TX (AP) - A 3-month-old baby was left unattended in a shopping cart for about an hour Sunday when her parents accidentally left her behind, police said.
Shoppers noticed the abandoned baby at a Toys "R" Us store, Midland police Sgt. Alfredo Grimaldo said.
"It was a misunderstanding among family members," Grimaldo said in Monday editions of the Midland Reporter-Telegram. "One man took the kids home and left the ladies to shop. But when he took the kids, he didn't take the baby from the cart."
The family members, who were traveling in different cars, didn't realize what happened until they all got home and nobody had the baby, he said.
"We don't think it was really a child abandonment issue. It was just a misunderstanding," Grimaldo said.
Police spokeswoman Tina Jauz said Child Protective Services is looking into the case.
LOL!
lol. I spit out my gum on that one it was so funny.
You are actually comparing someone leaving their child in a 120 degree car all day with an accident?
These things happen all the time and it's very understandable. How scary that must have been for you! I'm thankful that your little girl was OK. :-)
LOL! Too funny!! I can relate!
This thread is cracking me up! Too funny!
However, now that they're grown it seems that they leave me everywhere.... restaurants, shopping malls, church... every chance they get.... but they can't get rid of me that easily...
;-)
Yer goofy .......... but in the good way!
Amazing!
I know a lady that threw up a tree!
You didn't think I'd forget this year, did you LiR? ;-) Hard to believe that was over five years ago. Merry Christmas!
It can be done and during Christmas shopping with more than one family and one family's children in tow, it can happen.
When my youngest was a newborn and asleep in her cradle, I was rounding up my two other children (toddlers at the time) to get into the car to go for a quick errand.
After backing up the car and getting to the top of the hill on our street to wait for traffic, I was checking on the children, who could and occasionally did, unbuckle their seat belts, noticed that the baby was not there. Horrified, I backed up down to our house, opened the garage door and ran into the house, sobbing.
As I ran into the master bedroom, still sobbing, I awakened the sleeping newborn, who also began crying. One of my enterprising toddlers, unbuckled her seat belt and then her sister's, running after me and were crying also.
We spent quite an afternoon wiping up tears all around.
Dang! I hate when that happens! ;o)
You are actually comparing someone leaving their child in a 120 degree car all day with an accident?
Yes it is an accident.
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