FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A 19-year-old South Florida woman faces child abuse charges after deputies say they found her 5-month-old child in her vehicle's trunk lying on a pair of hedge clippers and surrounded by dangerous objects including a gas can.
Broward Sheriff's deputies say they tried to pull over a vehicle on Tuesday but Breona Watkins kept driving. When she stopped, the deputy heard a baby crying in the trunk.
Deputies say Watkins told them she asked her 14-year-old passenger to slide the baby into the trunk through a back seat panel because she didn't want to get ticketed for not having a car seat.
Watkins remains jailed on $7,000 bail. It wasn't known whether she has a lawyer.
4 comments:
Car seats are pretty damned expensive, Troop.
I hate the damned things. Gotta use one all the time for my granddaughter.
My dad used to place me on his lap when he drove around in his pickup truck. He let me pretend to control the steering wheel.
I was driving a truck before I was 12. Tractor too. Drove on dirt back roads that were unpatroled.
She would have been better off just facing the ticket.
A better question would be: just who made these backwards ass rear seat car seats a requirement for children? And why?
There is simply stupid and then there is awesomely stupid...which is the category of the car seat rules.
Usually people with Hedges are much smarter.
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