On 11 Jul 2005, at 11:52 pm, Deborah Harrell wrote:
<sigh>
Every summer, children die needlessly because of being
left unattended in cars. (I suppose a number of dogs
do too, but I didn't look that statistic up).
Apparently transporting children in the trunk is getting popular too:
http://tinyurl.com/boduu
"A mother driving from Alabama to Loudoun County forced two of her
daughters, ages 8 and 10, to take turns riding in the trunk because
the four-door sedan was cramped with three other passengers and a
dog, authorities said yesterday.
Cheryl Ann Schoonmaker, 38, has been charged with abuse and cruelty
to children for allegedly rotating the two girls in and out of the
trunk of the Nissan Sentra during the July 1 trip, which took more
than eight hours.
Schoonmaker was driving from Alabama, where she has relatives, to the
Loudoun home of her ex-husband, the girls' father, said Kraig
Troxell, spokesman for the Loudoun sheriff's office. Also riding in
the car were the former couple's 12-year-old daughter, a 12-year-old
family friend and an infant in a car seat."
"The incident was at least the third time in less than two months
that local women have faced criminal charges after allegedly putting
their children in car trunks. In June, a Frederick woman was charged
with reckless endangerment after a police officer watched her help
her 9-year-old son, her 3-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old friend
into the trunk in a shopping mall parking lot. When the police
officer pulled her over, the woman said the children had wanted to
ride there.
Earlier this month, Tamatha Parker, 33, of Quantico was charged with
child abuse after Fredericksburg authorities accused her of locking
her two 5-year-old children in the car trunk as punishment for
misbehaving in a store."
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