Baby left in car

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On my way back to our car, My husband noticed a baby in the car parked next to ours. Alone, two front windows were slightly open, he looked about 12 months. We fretted a bit, stayed sat next to him waiting for 10 minutes and no-one came. So I called the police on 101, and they immediately put me through to 999.

The woman arrived back at her car a minute before the police did. I told her I'd called the police, and she couldn't leave her baby like that. She cried and said she was having a shit day and needed to get the item she' bought (big and bulky box, maybe a buggy?) to the car. I hugged her, cried with her, and said I understood but she still can't do that, and then directed the police to her and left.

Was I being a busy body? AIBU to think it's illegal to do that?

So, one deliberate murder later and we still have no accidental deaths in the UK from a child being left in the car & over heating.

Only problem with that is that the deliberate murder case you're thinking of was in the USA. The UK one was in 1999 and was a very real case of accidental death were the car was parked in the shade and in tune with so many of these cases abroad, not in the view of any adults who could have averted the tragedy.

extrahot so how long wwoukd you have waited? You gonna stand there for 2 hrs watching ovee the car til the mom comes back and then calmly walk away?

Op had no way of knowing how long the baby had been there, what would happen next (baby vomitting etc) or how long the parebt would be. Mom could have got into an altercation in the shop, she could have slipped and knocked herself out. No one would think to check thr car park for a baby!!
Yes its all unlikely but then i guess it depends what ofds you like to play with over a baby's life!

I have a 2 yo and 4.5 yo and on a couple of occasions have left them in the car for 5-10min, though never on a warm day and always right by the entrance to the shop. I am on my own with the kids during the working hours and sometimes I have to pop in to pick something up and I believe it is less distressing for the kids to let them sleep in the car rather than wake them up and then drag them half awake (usually upset by that point) to the shop.

I understand the concerns, but I think calling the police is a bit much, a non-incriminating announcement at the shop would have been made my course of action after waiting for the parent for 5min.

How many shops were there tho? If its abything like my local MC there's a coffee shopp, several kids shops, tons of clothes shops...

And then if there is just one and no one comes out cos now they're embarassed?

She saw a child at risk and reported it. Simple and correct