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I'd have pushed the cart to a manager, let her come out and find her baby missing and give her a scare.
I knew a woman who 'Forgot' her sleeping child in her car at Wal Mart, started walking towards the store, then realised what she'd done, turned right around to go get the child, feeling like a total scumbag for it, even though she'd only walked maybe 50 feet and turned around and they arrested her for it because a policeman witnessed it, and charged her with neglect.
I would love to be a mother one day, but it's probably not meant to be. This breaks my heart. Some people just don't know how fortunate they really are, and they should treasure it instead of taking it for granted.
Absolutely infuriating... but good for you for leading the cavalry... I hope this is the closest she'll ever come to learning that lesson...but only for the baby's sake.
And if he had been taken, she would have been all tears as she explained how she was really only gone for a minute. Turned her head for one second.
I agree-- good for you for standing there. I hope she was embarassed and/or scared enough to realize what she did.
There can be a case made for sterilization.
UGH, I'd have been just as upset as you were. Amazing that some children even make it to adulthood with parents like that.
Amen, sister.
If she was able to do that in the grocery, what more do you think she could do at home? The thought scares me. I wish I was there so I could've just taken the-little-boy-in-the-basket and brought him home.
OMG! That is horrifying. I took one of my sons to the store last night.. I wouldn't even take my hand off of him while he sat there in the cart. Even while reaching to get the food from the lady behind the deli counter, I kept a hand on him (and he was strapped in tight, lol).
That just makes me ill. 
I CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT. A child is such a gift. Why leave that baby alone? I don't get it. Scares me actually.
Since I have become a mother my alert is on high. We tried so long and so hard to have just one that totally makes me sick to see neglect like that.
GGGRRRRR. I'm glad you told her off.
And here I sit without a child trying desparately while nearly any f*ck-up can have one. Just rips my heart out...
This is exactly the kind of thing that destroyed my friendship with "A". She leaves her baby (at 4 years old) home ALONE and runs to the corner store. She doesn't use a car seat for the infant if she's going less than 3 blocks. Arghh. I think laws need to be even more strict for this kind of thing.
I would have defintely called someone about it, child protection for sure, but it would have been tricky to get her name, which makes it hard to investigate. I would imagine this was not her first time leaving the baby without proper supervision and likely not the last. I work as a child protection worker for Children's Aid and there are very few "only time" mothers. It is often a pattern with them, and they need a good wake-up call. I have seen a few similar instances and reported one in particular (long before I was working for CAS). The mother had gone out and left her 2 year old napping in the apartment. Trouble was, he woke up and left the apartment and stood down the hall from me, crying for over an hour. I stayed with him until his mother came home, with her excuse that he was sleeping when she left, so she thought it was ok. We lived on the TOP floor of a 4 storey building with balconies!! What an idiot.
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