I just don't get it WHY AN ARREST

UPDATE: According to the St Pete Times interview the following day, this young woman was found with her sister in one's home or the other: with her other two, older children and her sister, having dinner. Sorry I didn't post an update right then as now I can't locate the article. As usual, when it sounds F'd it IS.

Yknow maybe there is more to the story, and I'm mistaken. People forget. I've read about folks who have driven to work and locked their infants in their cars and forgotten about them most of the day. At some point during the day, they make a horrified dash to their car to find a dead infant. This is terrible. Tragic. Sickening. But, they are not charged with criminal acts. What's the difference?
I don't get it.
Maybe the person on the other end failed this child. Why weren't they arrested?
I'm not saying it's OKAY to do this. I'm saying 'shit happens' ... I hope they had a compelling reason to arrest this woman other than someone failed to take her baby inside.

They prosecuted half to death the woman who left the baby in the van at the family daycare. That's understandable (mostly) as they are licensed to care for others' children and she admitted a lapse in 'procedure'. But, this .... I just don't see why mistakes have to result in arrests.

This lady would have to be a pretty heinous parent for this to satisfy me as something she needed to be arrested for.

Tampa Cops --- never stop servin' and protecting. Or somethin. Probably this lady is poor. Given the addresses --- there are other factors involved, as well. Business as usual in Tampa.

April 06, 2007
Baby left on top of car
TAMPA – Investigators accused a 26-year-old Tampa woman of abandoning her baby by leaving the infant on top of someone else’s car.

Jajuana Yvette Broxton, of 4411 N 48th St., faces a charge of child neglect after police say she left an 8- to-9-month-old baby in a car seat on top of a 1995 Nissan at 6014 N 40th St.

Police say Broxton put the baby on the hood of the car, dropped off a diaper bag, then drove away in another car. Officers interviewed people at the scene and figured out a few places where Broxton could have gone, said Lt. Robert Lovering. They found her at 11314 52nd St., where they arrested her.

She was released from the Hillsborough County Jail after posting $7,500 bail.

Police reports give no indication of injuries to the child, who was not transported to a hospital.

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