Any mother knows how har it is after having a baby and how your stress can play havoc on you.
However, a Florida mom is in police custody after she left her 1-year old daughter in a car under the hot summer heat, while getting drunk inside a bar.
Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons confirmed, Madison Hart, 27, has been charged with neglect of a child with great bodily harm for allegedly leaving her daughter in a hot car outside Tickets Sports Bar in Pensacola, Fla., on Sunday.
“She showed up at the Tickets Sports Bar and stayed about 20 minutes,” Simmons told reporters. “She tried to leave. The employees and some patrons at the Tickets Sports Bar were so concerned about her that they stopped her from leaving and called law enforcement.”
When officers arrived, Hart told them that someone dropped her off at the bar.
Authorities transported her to a local hospital and a relative showed up to retrieve her.
The relative asked police where Hart’s daughter was because she was supposed to be with her mother.
“Deputies returned to the bar parking lot and found a 1-year-old child, inside a vehicle with the windows up, in the heat that we’ve been experiencing over the last couple of days,” Simmons said. “Outside temperatures had reached 88 degrees that day.”
Officers had to break the vehicle window to rescue the baby, who was suffering from heat-related illness. The little girl, who authorities believe was in the car for at least an hour, is thankfully expected to make a complete recovery.
“Clearly, she had no concern for her 1-year-old,” Simmons said.
Escambia County jail records indicate Hart is being held on a $15,000 bond.
A trial will be held soon for the incident that took place last month in July.
