A 20-year-old Arizona woman has been charged with child abuse after leaving her 2-year-old daughter inside a boiling hot car while she shopped inside a Walmart.
Mikayla
Peer left the toddler inside the vehicle on July 4 and walked with her brothers
into the retail store. A
passerby saw the child sweating profusely and called 911.
"She's
sweating a lot," he told the dispatcher, ABC News reported.
Police
responded, and officers smashed the front passenger window and removed the
dripping wet girl. The
windows had been rolled all the way up.
Eight
minutes later, the mother can be seen on surveillance video strolling up to the
car, apparently not disturbed by police and bystanders clustered around her
card.
Officers
said the child would have been in stifling vehicle for 20 minutes had the Good
Samaritan not phoned for help. Peer
is scheduled for a court appearance on today.
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