Woman accused of leaving baby in Walmart parking lot while she chases $50

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/18178645/detail.html

So yeah I'm bothered by the woman leaving the tiny baby alone in the parking lot next to the car, and words can't express how angry I'd be if someone did that my baby.

But I'm also stunned by this: "A Wal-Mart employee said she got the baby after about six minutes and brought her into the store." Now, if you saw a woman chasing money and a tiny baby left alone, would you sit and time her or would you help? I think my instinct would be to help this woman.

Sign her up!

and even so may get fired for it...

remember, it's WAL-MART the employee worked for ...

Apparently, they are not getting fired as often as people on DU like to suggest is typical for the chain. Many of the employees are very familiar as they have worked in that store for many, many years.

I suspect the employee brought the baby inside for that reason. I would have also.

Today was fairly mild temp wise but it often feels about 10F less this time of year because of the lake and the wind chill.

and may as well take the baby to the welfare department if their last $50 for the month is gone. I can understand the panic and wish the employee would have had a little more compassion.

especially these days. A lot of people might be sent into a panic over losing it. I would be upset if I were the mom, but if I saw someone going through that, I'd help in some way. Not sit and time them.

Repuke state?

Eastlake, Ohio. I don't know Ohio well enough to know much about Eastlake.

Second, Eastlake is about two seconds from me and I confess, I have been in and shopped at that store.

Really, it sounds like what this woman did was not a hot idea, but I question whether it was for "six minutes." It's true, something can happen to a child in only a few, so it's not a great situation, but I can see how seeing $50 fly away in the wind might make someone temporarily lose her train of thought.

Finally, I'm more than a bit sick of some DU'ers' first response to any news story about anything bad happening being an attempt to blame Repukes. "Is it a Repuke state?" Please. Even if it was, the attempt to tar everyone in ANY state with the same brush, not to mention assume that everyone who does something wrong is a Repuke, is annoying as hell. And it's really irritating when it's in your own backyard.

so I didn't know if it was a red area. Though, I agree, whether the area is red or blue, and whether the person who did it is a Republican or Democrat, is irrelevant.

Lake Co. went for Obama. So did the state.

Foley, AL
They're doing 30 days in the county lockup.
Mom came and got baby.
No word on her comments.

Hopefully you really don't need to have the difference spelled out.

Whatever you meant.
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i guess i've been there and know what it's like to drop something precious and to have to scurry to pick it up before it's lost

in similar situations i am sometimes reluctant to chase the money for the person, in case it looks like i'm trying to take it, but i would simply keep an eye on the child and make sure the baby wasn't harmed -- or if the money is near me, i put a foot/hand on it while calling loudly, "i've got it right here" so the person knows i don't intend to take it from them but instead want to keep it safe for them

i'm sure the woman also had an eye on the baby in the few moments it took to pick up the dropped cash

all in all, people should help each other instead of looking for reasons to rat each other out

it's xmas, cut each other some fuckin slack for crap's sake

i bet the shithead who dropped the dime on the woman was hoping to grab the lost $$$ herself, don't you?

Apparently the woman was not close enough to the child to see the employee walking away with her. That is incredibly dangerous.

A Wal-Mart employee said she got the baby after about six minutes and brought her into the store.

This sounds like they waited a bit and finally brought the baby indoors which is the right thing to do. Like i said it is cold here this time of year.

Must have been warmer earlier today. Somebody was just being an ass.

The temp was 42F this morn/afternoon. The wind speed was 22-32 MPH. It felt about 32F. It can be biting.

Again the baby was left long enough that a woman was able to walk away with her. According to the news the employee did not see the woman at all. Watch the video at the link.

edited to ask..nevermind.

So we will see how long it was and where everybody was and how well the baby was wrapped up.

is white and the accused person is black, does it?

As it happens, I am white but when my kids were little I was accused of not taking care of them properly I think mostly because I was driving a nasty looking car. It's funny how people treat you differently when they think you're poor.

She said that she was afraid to go near the baby at first because she thought someone might get upset. Nobody did because nobody was watching the child. The woman took the child into the store but did not see the woman or her car as the baby was left in a carrier in a cart, alone.