Mom (and Boyfriend) Pleads Guilty for Locking Son in Trunk

[Champ]

SAN DIEGO - A mother who left her 7-year-old son locked in the trunk of a car while she partied in a bar has pleaded guilty to felony charges of child abuse and false imprisonment.



Sarah Powell, 27, and her boyfriend, Jake Faria, 30, entered their pleas Monday as part of a plea bargain.


The San Diego couple are likely to be sentenced to probation at a Jan. 5 hearing with credit for time served, according to San Diego Superior Court Judge Browder Willis. The charges carry maximum prison terms of up to six years, prosecutors said.


Powell was arrested during her birthday celebration on Aug. 23 at a bar in San Diego's Ocean Beach neighborhood and jailed for three weeks. A witness had alerted police that the boy was in the trunk of Powell's Volvo, which was parked outside the bar.


The boy was found in the trunk with a pillow and a sleeping bag. He told police he had been locked in the trunk on 10 other occasions.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&ncid=816&e=4&u=/ap/20041123/ap_on_fe_st/boy_in_trunk

[yellowcanine]

1. Excellent family values! And she is not even a lesbian! Who would

have guessed?

[izzie]

2. Just once I wish a son and his Mom would lock the boyfriend----

in a trunk or beat the guy up. What is it with these crazy women? How can they put some boy friend before their own children?

[Cuban_Liberal]

3. Lock her up and terminate her parental rights.

Trust me on this one, folks: as a former cop, there really ARE people who will NEVER 'get it' about what being a parent is, and the loser in this story is one of them. Trust me.

[bloodyjack]

4. Now that's what I call a real open-shut case!

:D

[Champ]

6. LOL

bloodyjack strikes again :D

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. "All of us were young and stupid once"

Sorry, but 27 is too old to be that stupid...