Mom leaves 2yr old in car while she runs in Macy's!

I think it is negligence. I have been a mom since I was 19 and never did I leave my child alone anywhere even if I will just be gone for a few minutes.Children can't protect themselves alone and they should never ever be left alone. Age has no excuse of you being a mother of 20..That's a very lame excuse. She left the windows closed..what if her child suffered suffocation in there from crying too much. Other than that she left the door open which can be an access for kidnappers and car thieves. Can her child stop the kidnapper from taking her? Why can't she just carry the kid if she will just be gone for a short while. It is not that hard. She should be thought how to be a mother...a real one.

My mom was 23 when she had me. Age has nothing to do with it. Maturity and common sense are in short supply for alot of people. No matter how old they are. Once again, a case of you can't fix stupid.

I don't see how if he was not there so did not take part in this kind of neglect and recklessness which he did not know would happen, how he could be charged, what is his crime lending her his car, people are allowed to let others drive their car so long as they do not give it to someone with out a license, However she is only 20 is just plain dumb statment to make, common sense alone tells a person any one who is old enough to care for younger children ie from teens on, NOT to leave a baby in a car like that, and certainly NOT for 30 minutes as far as that goes not for even a minute. To many things could go wrong to quickly. As far as this goes she got lucky, lucky that the person who saw the child crying called the police, because some nut could have seen the child and take the baby, As for this 20 yr old mom she needs to be charged with child endangerment and neglect. I am well aware of the hassles of trying to run errands with a child, and in my case a child in a wheel chair, so it was not an easy thing to just pull out a stroller and go. If you don't have a stroller carry the child, This makes me wonder, is she then this reckless with the child at other times, ie does she run out to do errands and leave the baby home alone? I knew of one instance when the woman drove her husband to work left six month old child sleeping, she was only gone for ten minutes... well in that ten minutes a fire could start, or any other number of things could go wrong. The woman was charged with reckless endangerment of a child in that case as well. It is one thing to leave a sleeping child in a crib while you walk to end of drive way to get the mail, it is so much more to leave children in cars, homes, unattended for any period of time.

Ok age should have nothing to do with it my goodness she is 20 years old she should know not to leave a toddler in a car has she ever heard of kidnapping? The boyfriend should not be charged just becuase it is his car he didn't leave the child in the car alone. She dosen't even have any remorese for leaving the toddler all she says is everyone makes mistakes? What kind of parent says that? What would she have said if he had been kidnapped?

I don't see how he could be charged if he wasn't even there. His owning the car has nothing to do with it. If someone borrowed a car and killed someone, does that put them at at fault? No way ... As for what this woman did, she is definitely guilty and this is not 'a mistake'. She knew exactly what she was doing when she chose to get out of that car and not take her child. If she's old enough to have a child, she's old enough to be able to care for it properly. She is 20 and the child is 20, for goodness sakes. It's not like she's 12 and was left alone on the streets to fend for herself. Yea, she made a mistake alright.

In this day and age its just someting that you really cannot do!!!...you cannot even justify it by saying that the doors and windows were all locked. We have the ongoing case of Mady who went missing in Portugal....she was left alone with her twin siblings and she went missing.So no way should that child have been left in the car.

i still think that she should be charged for her careless actions... 20 years is not that young and if she chooses to have children, she has to learn to be responsible for him... leaving a 2 years old son in the car unattended is really a very irresponsible act and she deserved to be punished...

I am sure the comment he made, about not being the dad, was trying to explain why he was lending the car. He was not there and should not be charged. She should have known better. It does not matter how old she is. He is not responsible for what she does, unless it is while driving the car and wrecks or something like that.

I think this was not something we can say everyone makes a mistake. You don't leave your kid in the car. I have left my coffee in the car before but not my kid. No, I don't think the boyfriend should be charged. He wasn't even there. If he had been with her, yes he should have been charged. And no her age doesn't make a difference.

What a stupid woman, leaving her child in the car alone while she goes shopping. Frankly she deserves to be charged, anything could have happened to the child while she was away. and how would she had felt if her child had been abducted while she was shopping. The boyfriend could have said something, even though he is not the father, surely they should have more common sense than to leave a child unattended.

That is not an excuse. There can't be any valid one in cases like these. She should have brought her child with her so her child's safety is assured. These young moms should be given enough training and advices to fulfill their duties.

I believe both of them should be charged with stupidity.. Those were the most miserable excuses that I have ever heard.. I think that the mother should lose the custody of her child until she can take some parenting classes or until she grows up, whichever comes first.. the boyfriend, well, thank goodness that it wasn't his son, he has no more sense than she does..

Oh no! That is awful. I would never ever leave my baby in the car alone. A lot of things could happen there, he could be kidnap or be hurt in some other way. I just hope she realize her mistake there.

i would not judge her because we all r people and all we do mistakes ... some of us big some of us little but main is that she actually is unexperienced girl and arest her is second mistake in this case....

Okay first of all I think that it's really that he is being charged because it's his car. He wasn't even there! Second of all her age has nothing to do with it and everyone does make mistakes but what kind of a mistake is that? How can you leave a child alone inside a car who knows what could have happened. The guy wasn't even there so he shouldn't be charged the one that needs to be charged is the mother because she was the one that had the child with her. About him saying it's not his son I don't really know how that has anything to do with that problem.

what an awful mother!i mean, what is she thinking?!it's her child and she didn't even bother to think of her child's safety..tsk..tsk...