Man Arrested For Allegedly Abandoning A Baby On The Highway
If there is one thing everyone should know, is that Big Brother is always watching. If you don’t know the reference you most likely did not read the book 1984, but essentially it means you are always being watched. A blessing to some people and a curse to others. In this case, it was both. A man arrested for abandoning a baby was caught, and the child’s mother is thanking surveillance cameras for the arrest.
The Bizarre Story
The incident occurred Wednesday morning at 8:30 am when the mother was involved in a crash with another vehicle. However, what started out as a car accident turned into a carjacking when the mother exited the vehicle. While she was exchanging information with the other driver involved in the accident, another gentlemen entered her SUV and drove away. To make matters worse, her 3-year old child and pet cat was still in the vehicle when it was stolen.
The mother attempted to hold onto the vehicle and inform the carjacker her child was inside, but she ultimately fell to the ground after being dragged for several feet. The victim told NBC “I was just scared, like, how things are right now everywhere in the world, I was just thinking maybe I wasn’t going to see her again or something and I was just scared, because she’s a little baby.”
Thanks to two men and surveillance cameras, her daughter was later found. Not only did dashcam footage show the carjacker put the baby on the side of the highway in a car seat, but more footage showed him ditching the vehicle as well. A third video showed the carjacker at a Family Dollar using the mother’s credit card. The cat was later found in the vehicle after the SUV had been abandoned. The video can be seen below.
The suspect now faces charges for kidnapping, carjacking, interfering with custody of a minor and illegal use of a credit card.
Source: NBC
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