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Police: Mom Left 5-Month-Old Boy In Car
Krystal Whitehead Faces Cruelty To Children Charge
POSTED: 8:19 am EDT June 25,
2009
CUMMING, Ga. -- Authorities charged a Forsyth County mother with cruelty to children after they said she left her 5-month-old boy in a hot car for 45 minutes while she shopped.The mother, Krystal Nicole Whitehead, was taken to the Forsyth County Jail, where she remained on Wednesday.A Forsyth County Sheriff's deputy was told by a shopper that a baby was alone in a car in the Lakeland Plaza shopping center on Friday night. Sheriff's spokesman Capt. Frank Huggins said the deputy found the child in a car seat with several windows rolled down.Deputies arrested Whitehead when she returned from shopping with her 11-month-old daughter.Huggins said the child was warm to the touch, but otherwise was fine. The boy was turned over to the Division of Family and Children Services.
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