Another Mom Behind Bars for Letting Kids Wait in Air-Conditioned Car

Ready to be outraged? Read this headline from
WKYT in Kentucky: ” Lexington woman accused of leaving kids in
running car.”

The gall!

According to WKYT:

 A Lexington woman is behind bars after police say she left
two children in a running car outside the Fayette County Detention
Center.

Police arrested Brandy Becksted outside the detention
center Tuesday afternoon.

She said she didn’t want to wake up the two and four-year-old
children in her car, so she left them inside while she entered the
facility to put money into an inmate’s account.

This woman kept her kids cool while she ran a short errand, and
that’s a crime? Should she have kept the windows rolled up with the
engine off and no air? Should she have dragged
them across the parking lot, which puts kids
in greater danger than just leaving them in the car?

Might as well lock up
the whole family and leave these children
parentless. Certainly any mom who doesn’t parent exactly the
way the cops want is in need of some hard time. And she’s in
luck—because thanks to absurd laws, these are indeed hard times to
be a parent.