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Atmore Woman Charged After Child Left Unattended In Hot Car
July 9, 2016
An Atmore woman has been charged with child abuse after allegedly leaving her young child in a hot vehicle outside a local Walmart.
According to Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks, a customer saw unattended the two-year old child crying and upset in a parked car that was not running about 12:20 p.m. Thursday. The customer was able to reach through window that was rolled down slightly, unlock the vehicle, remove the child and take it inside the air conditioned store.
Atmore Police arrived to find the child inside the Walmart being given water by an employee.
The child’s mother was identified as Kim Ross of Atmore. She told police that the child was asleep in the car when she arrived at the store. Ross said she rain inside the store to purchase birthday supplies for the child’s birthday.
Brooks estimated the child had been in the hot car for 6-7 minutes, but would have been there 20 minutes before Ross returned if not rescued by the Good Samaritan.
Ross was booked into the Escambia County Detention Center in Brewton on a charge of torture and willful abuse of a child.
The Alabama Department of Human Resources was called to assist with the investigation. The child was later released with a family member.
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9 Responses to “Atmore Woman Charged After Child Left Unattended In Hot Car”
This case as well as all cases like this should be considered and treated in the Court of law as if thr unthinkable had happened… Stop giving second chances, stop showing mercy… I don’t even want to imagine how these children are being treated at home… Im a mother of 5 and ill be damned if I leave any one of mine in the car for any reason… They go where I go no if’s, and’s or but’s about it… I truly believe that these parents are doing this on purpose….
Put her in a car during the hottest part of the day for about 30 minutes just to show her what that poor child went through!!!
Not only was the child being neglected but a person could just as easily have the child and left with it going no telling where. Most children that fall asleep in a vehicle will wake up when the vehicle stops. Child neglect is a serious thing.
Makes me wonder how these kids get treated all the time with these kind of parents that would do this kind of thing. I’m sure this is not the only time they are treated less than human. We just never know what they have to go through on a daily basis. They probably don’t know what LOVE feels like. Makes me cry for them .
That smirk on her face shows me she doesn’t care and she thinks it’s no big deal.
12:20 in the afternoon- good Lord…hottest time of the day!
Wow…what an idiot. I bet she didn’t leave her cell phone in the car to overheat. She should be sterilized. We have a country of mindless zombies.
Wow doesn’t surprise me at all that’s all I’m saying I don’t care I have a nine year old that I wouldn’t leave In the car there is no exuse if you don’t want to be a mother don’t have kids simple as that if they give that child back to her they as sorry as she is
There is no accounting for peoples poor judgment. The sad part is this kid will be returned to this situation.