[Lurker]

One of the employees said she was “God smacked”

She most likely said "gobsmacked".

Reporters are idiots, but that's redundant.

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[DB]

Where's the father?

This woman sounds completely nuts.

[Dallas59]

Amazing. No telling what the child was going through at home.

Take the baby away. Give her a patch to keep her from having anymore "inconveniences".

[elli1]

later went to Starbucks with her dog

You can take a dog to Starbucks?

[NJRighty]

The child was without care for 30 to 40 minutes

I think it would be safe to guess the child has been without care since he was born.

[Frwy]

Solitary confinement for the rest of her life.

[MaryFromMichigan]

I wonder if she would have been comfortable leaving her purse, cash and credit cards with the same valet parking attendants she left her little boy?

Nah, she probably didn't trust them that much.

[pillut48]

"God smacked"??

Previous poster is right, the phrase is "gobsmacked"
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gobsmacked

but having said that, I believe this so-called 'mother' *should* be God smacked for abandoning her child repeatedly!

Thank God temperatures weren't high.

[EBH]

She is not the only nut out there.

I had a woman this week ask me to watch her kid while she ran back out to the car to get her wallet?

Thank goodness for the grandmotherly lady that had the hutzpah to tell the lady she was being 'unreasonable'

[Carolinamom]

She took the dog to Starbucks but left the baby behind and unattended in the car. Unreal.

[SIDENET]

"I've got to have my latte."

[1rudeboy]

Open question: can two events make a "pattern?" Much too philosophical for me this time in the morning.

[Wil H]

The question is...

If it is an arrestable offence (which it should be) to leave your child unattended in a car in a shaded parking lot for 40 minutes then why isn't an arrestable offence to drag your child across 20 to 50 miles of desert in the searing heat with no water and no place to take shelter?

In other words, why aren't illegals that are caught in the desert arrested for endangering their children?

[Condor51]

Bummer. This is really gonna screw up Gardenia's chance of being selected Mother Of The Year.

On the upside, given her penchant for shopping, Capitol One will be sending her 20 gazillion; 'You're Pre-Approved', credit card applications.
(what's in YOUR wallet?)

[onevoter]

One offense involved leaving the child in a Silver Sedan and the next was a black Mercedes. One would think that with the money for expensive cars and jewelry, she could hire a babysitter or a nanny and stop expecting "the little people" who work paid hourly positions to watch her child for her while she shops.

[MarkL]

Mark

[khnyny]

The perp's name sounds different, perhaps Eastern European or Russian? Is she a naturalized citizen?