Police: Mom Takes Baby To Bar, Falls Asleep In Hot Car

[The Straight Story]

Police: Mom Takes Baby To Bar, Falls Asleep In Hot Car

POSTED: 11:33 am EDT August 16, 2005
UPDATED: 1:13 pm EDT August 16, 2005

A woman in Leesburg, Fla., was arrested and charged with child neglect Tuesday after she allegedly took her 4-month-old into a bar and was later found passed out in a hot car with the infant, according to a police report.


Holly Bacon.

Leesburg police received a complaint from the Shamrock bar at 11:45 Monday night of a woman taking an infant into the business and then falling asleep in her car with the baby.

Witnesses said they were worried that the child may be in danger in the woman's locked car without air conditioning and with the windows rolled up.

When police arrived, a group of bar patrons led officers to a car with Holly Bacon (pictured, left) and an infant inside. The temperature inside Bacon's car was 80 degrees, police said.

http://www.local6.com/news/4857431/detail.html

Not even sure what to say...

[Horse with no Name]

1. WTF is in the water in Florida

If it's not in Texas, it's in Florida.:shrug:

[sui generis]

5. eh? silly comment

"your" state is positively saintly, I guess.

You can't generalize. Poverty and addiction, inability to find work or pay for child care, lack of insurance for anti-depressants, there are lots of things that could lead a person to make stupid choices.

If we really are compassionate then we have to recognize that people DO have problems, whatever the cause, and try to do something about those problems before they get worse.

Giving up on people on the basis of little or no information is what the other side does.

[The Straight Story]

7. now, it can be fun to make fun of states :) Plus they trumpet things

as though it had something to do with their states - Like Ohio, where I reside - we have websites talking about the cool people from Ohio like Dean Martin, et al, as though being born here made you something you would have not been elsewhere. Which may have some ring of truth about it.

Some states just scream wacko louder then others :)

[Horse with no Name]

8. I'm in Texas.

I believe I included my state as NOT being positively saintly.:shrug:

[sui generis]

13. Okay Horse

thought you were another one of those smug superior dang yankees. }(

Anyway, the rest of my reply still counts - :hi:

[Horse with no Name]

16. No

Not one of dem damn yanks. ;)
But truly--I think all these acts that happen in Texas and Florida have something to do with being homes of the * family.:)
It's like the states are trying to purge or something.:shrug:

[im10ashus]

17. You have a problem with Yankees? n/t

[sui generis]

19. not alla youse

just the ones that vote for red politicians

[im10ashus]

21. Oh, I see.

That would be the redneck southerners you speak of. :-)

[sui generis]

22. there are redneck yankees too

(joking aside, there really are people down here who talk like this, like the Woah Between The States was still gwine on)

:hi:

[im10ashus]

23. Oh believe me, I know.

I work with some and am related to some. :-)

I am originally from Indiana. It may be in the midwest, but it is HIGHLY redneck southern all the way.

:hi:

[sakabatou]

20. You forgot Poland

[Squatch]

2. Definitely not a flattering picture.

Some people should not be parents.

[bertha katzenengel]

3. How about "Jesus Christ!" for starters.

Then I'd say "foster care --> adoption" (unless the grandparents are fit and willing) and "prison sentence."

[jody]

4. Red Neck Momma? n/t

[The Straight Story]

6. She has that 'come hither' look about her :)

Very seductive, if you're a sick freaker (freeper + freak = freaker). ;)

[ohio_liberal]

24. I think she was still completely wasted when they took the shot

:shrug:

[KingFlorez]

9. More Florida idiotics

[steve2470]

10. I am not defending this woman but....

as a lifetime resident of this area, 80 degrees in a locked car is warm but not really hot. YES, that baby should have been at home sleeping snugly in his/her crib. The mother should have stayed home or at the minimum called her hubby/boyfriend/lover/friend, etc.. at that bar to do her business, whatever it was. Here in Florida in a locked car, it can get up to 130 degrees. Just some perspective here, folks. I am sure that mother has problems and exercised very poor judgment.

on edit: On a re-reading of the article, it appears that her extreme alcohol intoxication was more of an issue than the temperature in the car, and the fact that she had passed out or fallen asleep, etc.

[kath]

11. Agree - heck, it was at LEAST 80 degrees in my mom's un-airconditioned

house in Cleveland when we visited there in July. In a closed car at night, the temperature is not going to get very high - without the sun shining, you don't have the "greenhouse effect" where the temp goes up and up and up. It may get stuffy in that car at night, but the temp isn't go to go much, if any, above ambient temperature.

[alphafemale]

12. Our AIR CONDITIONING is usually set at over 80.

Thank g-d she passed out, actually.

[blondeatlast]

14. This crap happens (with the parent inside somewhere) too often in AZ.

Citizens are empowered to break the windows to save a child or a pet in such a case as long as the authorities are notified ASAP.

It's inexcusable. I wouldn't leave my son once just to pick up a carton of milk at Circle K. I carried his car seat in with my sleeping boy.

[The Straight Story]

18. I often ask people

Would you leave a million in cash laying in the back seat while you went into the store? If not, why? I don't find anyone that would leave money in the car but have found several who think nothing of leaving a kid in the back while they run in somewhere.

[Cleita]

15. That baby needs to be put in the care of a relative and the

mother sent to de-tox. It's too bad we don't have good safety nets in this country for people who need help, and to protect their children from them.