A Phoenix, Ariz., woman put her 5-week-old baby on top of her car in his car seat and drove away, apparently forgetting he was there, not even noticing when the seat fell off the car and landed in an intersection, police said.
Neighbors discovered the baby on the roadway, still strapped to his safety seat, which was lying on its side. Luckily, the baby was unhurt.
The baby's mother, 19-year-old Catalina Clouser, who allegedly had been smoking marijuana, was arrested and charged with aggravated driving under the influence and child abuse, police said.
"We believe that whatever she was under the influence of was the deciding factor in what did happen to this child and we're extremely happy that for the baby this turned out well and the baby is going to be OK," Officer James Holmes of the Phoenix Police Depart said.
Clauser, her boyfriend and their friends had been smoking marijuana earlier in the evening at a nearby park, but the boyfriend was arrested on suspicion of aggravated DUI when they went to a store - with the baby in the car - to get beer, according to police.
Upset that her boyfriend was arrested, police said, Clauser went to a friend's home and smoked more marijuana.
Clauser left around midnight and apparently put the sleeping baby on the roof of the car and drove off, forgetting he was there, and continued driving after the baby fell off the car, Holmes said.
Leilani Gerlach, a homeowner who lives across from the intersection, notified police after she and another neighbor saw the baby in the car seat on the street.
"We were both rolling our eyes in astonishment that someone could forget their baby," Gerlach said. "The car seat was turned to the side so anyone passing by wouldn't be able to tell there was an actual baby inside. Thank god they stopped."
After police arrived, two people walked up and told them the baby was Clausen's. As the officers talked to the two, who identified themselves as friends of Clausen and her boyfriend, the young mother drove up, police said.
"[She] had gotten into her car, set the baby seat on top of the car and forgot that the child was up there. It does not appear that immediately she realized what happened," Holmes said. "I think that perhaps she got where she was going and realized that she did not have the baby in the car."
"There was damage to the car seat, it was scraped but there was no damage to the child," Holmes said.
The baby is now in custody of Child Protective Services.
Okay fuck that…
Seriously folks, I have a two year old son – there is NO FUCKING WAY IN HELL!! You ever forget about your son, it’s impossible, I don’t care how much you smoked how fucking airborne you are or how drunk you can get, you never forget about your child. And mind you I am about the most forgetful person on this planet (my long suffering moderators on my webpage can testify to that I can assure you) but even I have never forgot about my son.
Here are two golden rules with babies1) Never ever place you baby in a baby seat on a table or top of a car – THINGS can fall down you know (fucking dipshit)
2) You take the baby out of the buggy you place it in the fucking child seat, you don’t fuck around you don’t get delayed, in the child seat the child goes
THAN you can scratch your ball sack or do whatever the fuck you’ve got to do, if I would have to place my shopping beside the car to put my son in the his child seat and somebody would run away with my shopping’s I STILL would place him first in his child seat before I run after the thief and beat him to death with my dick.
This has always been puzzling to me anyways, you have to apply for a license to get a dog but it’s okay to breed as many little trailer trash tornado bait offspring’s as you want to.
It’s ridicules and its wrong – breeding children should not be part of your basic rights, if you are not in a situation that largely speaking is suitable for kids be it your age or the surroundings you live in you should not be allowed to have children, until you have changed your surroundings deemed suitable for children and even than everybody regardless of your current situation should receive a visit from the child support center once a year or in some cases on a more frequent basis by proxy, monitoring the child's progress and being there if support is needed should be mandatory – this doesn’t need to cost a lot either, a simple house call and look around checking with parents and kids if they need anything can in most cases highlight neglect or at least send up warning signs flares.
