Couple arrested for leaving 9-month-old in a parked car on a hot day while at sex shop.
A young Wisconsin couple were recently arrested for leaving their infant in a parked car on a hot day while they shopped at a sex store.
Temperatures were in the high 70s on June 22 when 20-year-old mother Jessica Hurley-Smith from Pleasant Prairie, and 18-year-old father Michael Cegers from Kenosha left their 9-month-old son in the car while they shopped for vibrators at Lover's Lane in Libertyville, Illinois. Two police officers were dispatched to the parking lot after they received a complaint that a child was crying in an unattended green Toyota Corolla.
When police officers arrived, they found the child in the car with the engine turned off and the windows rolled down less than an inch. According to the police report, the child was 'crying and sweating profusely.'
Soon after arriving on the scene, the mother and father exited the shop and spoke with the officers, explaining that they had left the child in the car because 'no one under the age of 18 was allowed in the store.' They didn't leave the air conditioning on in the car because 'it is unlawful to leave a vehicle unattended with the engine idling in Wisconsin.' The mother said they had left the child in the car for approximately 20 minutes.
According to an employee at the store, the couple didn't seem to be in a hurry while shopping. 'They were taking their time in here,' the employee told Today's TMJ4. 'They were just kind of walking around, looking at everything. What's also alarming about that is they weren't in any hurry to go back out to their car.' The parents seemed to be in a hurry when TODAY'S TMJ4 found them outside the mother's Pleasant Prairie home. They would not stop to answer questions when approached by a reporter.
Leaving children unattended in hot vehicles can be a deadly mistake. The Department of Geosciences at San Francisco State University tracks these types of hyperthermia cases and estimates that about 37 children die each year after being left in a hot parked car. This year there have already been 16.
Most of the deaths are caused by parents accidentally leaving their children in the car, forgetting to take them out. But 18 per cent of these deaths since 1998 have been because parents intentionally left their child in the car. The experts at SFSU advise to never leave a child unattended in a vehicle, not even for a minute.
'The message needs to get out there that this is never ok. it is very dangerous,' said Dr. Beth Griffin, an emergency physician at Wheaton Franciscan St. Francis. (OP: in Milwaukee) 'They can be overheated very, very quickly to the point that's dangerous and even deadly.'
Both parents were arrested and charged with endangering the life or health of a child, a misdemeanor. While the couple was being processed at the police station, the child was taken to Advocate Condell Medical Center. The incident was reported to the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services.
The parents are due in court on August 2.
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(OP: Just to let you know, not all people in Wisconsin are that stupid.)
Temperatures were in the high 70s on June 22 when 20-year-old mother Jessica Hurley-Smith from Pleasant Prairie, and 18-year-old father Michael Cegers from Kenosha left their 9-month-old son in the car while they shopped for vibrators at Lover's Lane in Libertyville, Illinois. Two police officers were dispatched to the parking lot after they received a complaint that a child was crying in an unattended green Toyota Corolla.
When police officers arrived, they found the child in the car with the engine turned off and the windows rolled down less than an inch. According to the police report, the child was 'crying and sweating profusely.'
Soon after arriving on the scene, the mother and father exited the shop and spoke with the officers, explaining that they had left the child in the car because 'no one under the age of 18 was allowed in the store.' They didn't leave the air conditioning on in the car because 'it is unlawful to leave a vehicle unattended with the engine idling in Wisconsin.' The mother said they had left the child in the car for approximately 20 minutes.
According to an employee at the store, the couple didn't seem to be in a hurry while shopping. 'They were taking their time in here,' the employee told Today's TMJ4. 'They were just kind of walking around, looking at everything. What's also alarming about that is they weren't in any hurry to go back out to their car.' The parents seemed to be in a hurry when TODAY'S TMJ4 found them outside the mother's Pleasant Prairie home. They would not stop to answer questions when approached by a reporter.
Leaving children unattended in hot vehicles can be a deadly mistake. The Department of Geosciences at San Francisco State University tracks these types of hyperthermia cases and estimates that about 37 children die each year after being left in a hot parked car. This year there have already been 16.
Most of the deaths are caused by parents accidentally leaving their children in the car, forgetting to take them out. But 18 per cent of these deaths since 1998 have been because parents intentionally left their child in the car. The experts at SFSU advise to never leave a child unattended in a vehicle, not even for a minute.
'The message needs to get out there that this is never ok. it is very dangerous,' said Dr. Beth Griffin, an emergency physician at Wheaton Franciscan St. Francis. (OP: in Milwaukee) 'They can be overheated very, very quickly to the point that's dangerous and even deadly.'
Both parents were arrested and charged with endangering the life or health of a child, a misdemeanor. While the couple was being processed at the police station, the child was taken to Advocate Condell Medical Center. The incident was reported to the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services.
The parents are due in court on August 2.
Source: 1 | 2
(OP: Just to let you know, not all people in Wisconsin are that stupid.)