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the teenage mother Catalina |
Oh wow!! In Phoenix, Arizona, a teen mother put her 5 week old baby
boy on top of her car in his car seat and drove away, apparently
forgetting he was there, not even noticing when the seat fell off the
car and landed in an intersection, police said.
Neighbors discovered the baby
on the roadway, still strapped to his safety seat, which was lying on
its side. Luckily, the baby was unhurt.
The baby's mother, 19-year-old
Catalina Clouser, who allegedly had been smoking marijuana, was
arrested and charged with aggravated driving under the influence and
child abuse, police said.
"We believe that whatever she
was under the influence of was the deciding factor in what did happen
to this child and we're extremely happy that for the baby this turned
out well and the baby is going to be OK," Officer James Holmes of the
Phoenix Police Depart said.
Clauser, her boyfriend and
their friends had been smoking marijuana earlier in the evening at a
nearby park, but the boyfriend was arrested on suspicion of aggravated
DUI when they went to a store (with the baby in the car) to get beer,
according to police.
Upset that her boyfriend was
arrested, police said, Clauser went to a friend's home and smoked more
marijuana.