Florida woman arrested: Left toddler in car for 40 minutes
Pinellas Park Police arrested a mother for leaving her 19-month old daughter in the car while she went shopping. Another cautionary hot car tale.
Pinellas Park Police arrested a mother for leaving her 19-month old daughter in the car while she went shopping. Another cautionary hot car tale.
Tampa Bay-area police have arrested a woman for leaving her 19-month-old daughter in a car while she聽shopped.
Sgt. Adam Geissenberger says witnesses alerted Pinellas Park Police that Vita Abramenkova had left her child in a locked, running vehicle for 40 minutes Monday聽afternoon.
Geissenberger says the car's air conditioning was circulating on low while the temperature in the parking lot was 92 degrees. The child was found crying inside the聽vehicle.
Geissenberger says Abramenkova told police her daughter was asleep when they arrived at the store and she didn't want to rouse the聽child.
Abramenkova was charged with child neglect. She was released on $2,000 bond. Pinellas County jail records did not show whether she had an聽attorney.
As 海角大神 reported recently, according to the kidsandcars.org web site, the number of heat stroke-related deaths was 44 in 2013.