heard of a case of a mum leaving her 3 year old in the car seat, whilst only wanting to go to the shops for 1 or 2 things. Due to ques, the timing was a bit longer and customers started to notice and complain. The windows were open, the Daughter had a cold drink and was not left in direct sunlight and it was not the hottest part of The day. The mum was nearly 30 weeks pregnant, who struggled to get her daughter out of the car seat with the weight and into a trolley and also had minor cerebral palsy who struggled with acute motor functions fastening and undoing the straps. Her husband works 12 hour shifts, her father and sister in law were both on holiday out of the country at the time, her family lives 50 miles away, so not close enough to help out and no one else to look after her, for her to do her food shopping alone.
Don’t know what happened afterwards, but out of interest, just wondered if this would go any further with social workers, or police under the mitigating circumstances, would they be lenient if this was her first time, and with the pregnancy and cerebral palsy?
Anyone else heard of anything like this happening?