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We're not saying this was a deliberate act yesterday
What, she forgot she had her child with her when she went to work? Bull ... charge her ass for capital murder.
Mom Charged In Toddler Heat Death
Relatives Say She Didn't Want Child
POSTED: 5:42 pm PDT October 30, 2007
UPDATED: 9:46 am PDT October 31, 2007
PHOENIX -- A mother who left her 17-month-old son in the car for at least seven hours while she worked at a west Phoenix Hooters was charged with negligent homicide in the child's death.Ashly Duchene, 22, was booked after investigators learned she had said she wanted her freedom more than her son.
Ashly Duchene
"We're not saying this was a deliberate act yesterday, but that does give insight to her mindset that caring for her child was not her top priority," Phoenix Police Sgt. Joel Tranter told KTAR. Tranter said family members told detectives that Duchene had made statements that she did not want to care for the child and wanted her freedom."It's also my understanding that other family members, perhaps, had taken the child away from her for brief periods of time," Tranter said. "They had concerns."Police said Duchene had planned to drop off her son, Ryan, at day care before heading to work at the Hooters restaurant near 29th Avenue and Bell Road.Instead, officers said, Duchene went straight to work with the toddler still in the vehicle.Tranter said, "When she was driving to work, she made a brief statement that she actually looked in her rear view mirror, saw a young child seated behind her in the child seat. Exactly what happened after that, we're not sure."Duchene arrived at work at 10 a.m. and when her shift ended around 5 p.m., she discovered Ryan was inside the vehicle and was unresponsive, investigators said.Authorities pronounced the child dead.The high temperature in Phoenix on Tuesday was 89 degrees. Readings inside the vehicle reached upwards of 110 degrees, authorities said.Police said the windows of Duchene's silver Honda Civic were tinted, making it difficult for anyone to tell a child was inside."She's probably feeling an overwhelming sense of guilt," said Mic e Fritz, a crisis counselor with the Phoenix Fire Department."She's probably nervous about what her parents are going to think, about what the public is going to think," Fritz said.Michael Feegan was at the scene and said he was shocked."There's no way you can leave a baby inside a car all day at work and just forget your baby like that," Feegan said.Amy Robin was in a crowd who gathered outside the restaurant. She said the mother should face charges."We're parents ourselves and we never once left our baby in the car," Robin said. "I think that's cruel."A similar case happened three years ago when a Mesa mother left her four-month-old in a mini-van in the parking lot of her Ahwatukee workplace after she forgot to drop the child at day care. The baby died at a hospital. The mother was never charged.Nationwide, 32 children die every year after being left unattended in motor vehicles, according to researchers at San Francisco State University.
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someone should do a myspace search for her.
We're not saying this was a deliberate act yesterday
What, she forgot she had her child with her when she went to work? Bull ... charge her ass for capital murder.
so the story is she forgot to drop him off at daycare? Had the child attended daycare routinuely? Either way, it takes a of a moron to forget you have a kid in your car.
Dude, it'd take someone so ed up to forget something like that, that they'd be physically incapable of having a child. One does not simply forget about their child in the car.
can i comment on this story even though i dont have a kid?
Did we need a BIGGER picture of the stupid ?
That's horrible.
i just noticed where this happened. 'figures.
That's just f*cked up...she's young AND stupid...put her ass away...
I would call her a but even a female dog takes better care of it's puppies than she she did with 1 child.
Careful, Kori's from there.....
Hooters?
That's was I was going to say, before I saw that it happened in Phoenix.
I'm glad they charged her as she should have been in this case, that lady that got off with an "Oops", that's just total bull .
Oops doesn't cover the death of a child, being a total idiot shouldn't be enough of an excuse to allow you to walk away without punishment for something like that...
I vote for mandatory sterilization for people who deliberately kill children.
dumb
As a father of 3, this makes me absolutely ing sick to the stomach. The amount of stories you hear about people killing, hurting, raping, breaking their children is disgusting.
Those members of the human race should be removed from children, other people, and placed on an island where they can only hurt themselves.
They should sterilize her and give her to the population of a male prison.
From personal observation, it always seems that those people are the most fertile.
As punishment, I think we should leave her in a car for 12 hours a day with no heat or A/C with only a bowl of water, so she has to lap it up to stay hydrated.
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