The community is outraged over this.
You’ve got that right! I live in Clermont County, and I am thoroughly disgusted with the prosecutor. This woman should be charged with something! My observations: (1) She backed her car up to the door of the school and made several trips from her car to the school for the donuts; (2) She had to move her car from the entrance to the school to the parking lot (didn’t she look in her rear-view mirror and see her child??); (3) If she was a typical teacher, didn’t she have a briefcase or some other tote that she had to retrieve from the car, causing her to look around and possibly see her child? (4) Why didn’t the babysitter call (either the mother or the father) and ask where the child was? (5) She had left the child in the car on several other occasions. On one of these, she left the child in the car for 10-15 minutes while watching her other child in a play at her preschool. I’m sorry — I just can’t work up any sympathy for this woman.
The person who ‘told’ of the child being left in the car during a play is probably outraged, too. I hope that Tara doesn’t feel guilty for not speaking up at the time, but I imagine that she does.
If only someone else had noticed and done something.