The Root; Published By Kalyn Womack
A Florida woman is facing felony charges in the country’s latest case where a child was left alone inside a vehicle. The car caught on fire while the children’s mother was inside a mall allegedly shoplifting, according to WESH.
Across the country, seven children have died while unattended in overheated parked cars this year, per Kids and Cars Safety. In some incidents, the parents were attending church or even working a hospital shift. However, an Orlando woman left her two children in the car to go inside the mall to shoplift, authorities say.
Alicia Moore, 24, parked her 2016 Lincoln at Oviedo Mall on May 26 around noon. While Moore and an unidentified male were inside playing “Oceans 8″ in Dillard’s for about an hour, the report says the vehicle suddenly caught fire in the lot. Read more
