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Like mother like daughter. Usually, this saying has a more positive note to it, but this time, it just goes to show that some behaviors can pass on from one generation to another, no matter their potential for danger and regardless of repeated warnings from authorities.
A woman from South Milwaukee was arrested last week after a woman called them to report 3 underage children locked inside a car in the parking lot of a Kmart in Cudahy. When the officers retrieved the mother from inside, she told them that her own mother had also been arrested for doing the same to her when she was little. Grandma wanted to watch a Packers game, she said.
The woman has been identified as Ashley L. Pirlot and she’s facing 3 counts of child endangerment, one of them a misdemeanor and the other 2 felonies, the Journal Sentinel reports. She drove with her young children there and, then, instead of bringing them inside with her, she opted to leave them unsupervised in the locked car for as long as she needed to get her shopping done.
Police say the children (aged 6 years, 17 months and 6 and half months) had no water and no food available, and there was an empty plastic bag on the backseat with them, posing a serious choking hazard. They were also underdressed and had dirty diapers, and the oldest told the officers that she was hungry because she hadn’t eaten in a while.
“Police paged Pirlot inside Kmart and she told them she asked the 6-year-old girl to watch her sisters because she couldn't fit all three in a shopping cart and didn't want to deal with seat belting the kids in a cart,” the report notes.
“Pirlot said she thought she had been inside the store for seven or eight minutes before police paged her. Surveillance video showed Pirlot was in Kmart for approximately 17 minutes before police arrived,” adds the publication.
While waiting for the woman to come back to her car, the officers brought the kids water and some food.
Police and various charity organizations constantly warn parents not to leave children unattended and unsupervised in a locked car, no matter the weather, the circumstances or how long the parent believes they will be gone. It’s a dangerous and reckless practice, and it can end in tragedy.
The woman has been identified as Ashley L. Pirlot and she’s facing 3 counts of child endangerment, one of them a misdemeanor and the other 2 felonies, the Journal Sentinel reports. She drove with her young children there and, then, instead of bringing them inside with her, she opted to leave them unsupervised in the locked car for as long as she needed to get her shopping done.
Police say the children (aged 6 years, 17 months and 6 and half months) had no water and no food available, and there was an empty plastic bag on the backseat with them, posing a serious choking hazard. They were also underdressed and had dirty diapers, and the oldest told the officers that she was hungry because she hadn’t eaten in a while.
“Police paged Pirlot inside Kmart and she told them she asked the 6-year-old girl to watch her sisters because she couldn't fit all three in a shopping cart and didn't want to deal with seat belting the kids in a cart,” the report notes.
“Pirlot said she thought she had been inside the store for seven or eight minutes before police paged her. Surveillance video showed Pirlot was in Kmart for approximately 17 minutes before police arrived,” adds the publication.
While waiting for the woman to come back to her car, the officers brought the kids water and some food.
Police and various charity organizations constantly warn parents not to leave children unattended and unsupervised in a locked car, no matter the weather, the circumstances or how long the parent believes they will be gone. It’s a dangerous and reckless practice, and it can end in tragedy.
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