This is appalling - Some people shouldn't be allowed to have

My2Beauties wrote: ...kids

Read this story - it's awful!

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - A mother was charged with felony child abuse for allegedly putting her two 5-year-olds in the trunk of her car in a store parking lot.

Police said Tamatha Parker, 33, told authorities she would turn herself in Wednesday.

She was not arrested after the incident Saturday because the children became upset about the possibility of their mother going to jail, authorities said.

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Another driver in the Wal-Mart parking lot alerted an off-duty, out-of-town police officer, who said he made the driver let the children out of the trunk. He also contacted local police.

“I don’t think any reasonable adult would have done anything differently,” said Wayne Ingersoll, who was back at work on the Sandown, N.H., police force Tuesday. “The dangers of children being in a trunk like that are obvious, especially on such a hot day.”

Ingersoll said the driver initially denied having children in the trunk, but then untied the rope that was holding the trunk shut and let out the children. The woman told city police that she was punishing the children for misbehaving inside the store, authorities said.

She also told police she did not plan to leave the parking lot with them in the trunk, Fredericksburg police spokesman Jim Shelhorse said.

Ingersoll said he had been on vacation in South Carolina and stopped in Fredericksburg to have his camper repaired.

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kimberley replied: that is insane!!

amynicole21 replied: OMG! Freaking idiot!! Especially after those 3 boys just died in the trunk of the car. I don't understand, they didn't take her to jail because it would upset her children?? WTF?!

JessC replied:
Yeah why would you do that, when 3 boys from NJ JUST died from suffication!

There are some scary people out there, she almost sounds like shes got some mental problems.

Josie83 replied: That is unbelievable!! xx

stanleygirl replied: That is not a punishment!! That is abuse, I can't help but wonder what else this woman considers acceptable discipline!

gr33n3y3z replied:
and from what I've been hearing on the news it was just one of those things that happend

But to stick your kids in the trunk She needs her head checked thats for sure

3xsthefun replied: What is it with people, lately? Geesh! That woman sounds like she has some real serious problems!

ediep replied: omg!!!! What an idiot!!!!!

DH works with the aunt and godmother of 2 of the boys that dies in that trunk last week. SO sad!

ammommy replied: That's all I have to say...

mom2tripp replied: I live 20 minutes from there and she was all over the news, supposedly the kids wanted to ride back there--SURE THEY DID!!! CRAZY LADY

mammag replied: What a nut case!!!!

MissyKay2005 replied:
LOL

Some people just don't think!

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ions_momma replied: OMG! How stupid!!!!

luvbug00 replied: WHAT!! They need to punish her hard core!!

Insanemomof3 replied: OMG that is HORRIBLE! I can't believe they let her go home with them! Why would a mother do that???

Sunflower04 replied: People make me sick

SOUTHERN MOMMY replied: OMG!!!WTF were the police thinking letting the kids go with that crazy B***H

MOMOF3BOYS1GIRL replied: OOHHH MY GOSH What was she thinking that is nuts poor kids and they don't want her to go to jail!

My2Beauties replied:
Exactly what I thought I was shocked at that. What kids want to ride in the trunk, and even if they asked her to ride in the trunk or whatever like someone said the mother told the police they did, what mother in her right mind would say "ok Johnny and Joey, get in the trunk while I go in the store!"