Mom sues TV station for false claim she left kid in hot car

Chris0nllyn

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A mom who was falsely accused of leaving her kids in a hot car in Katy is suing a Houston TV station who reported the incident, saying she feared vigilantes might take action against her.

KHOU, the Houston CBS affiliate ran a news report on July 15 based on cell phone footage from a witness who claimed shoppers smashed a window to get two children out of a Jeep parked at a Katy area mall. The report alleged Araceli Cisneros left them there to get a hair cut.

Just hours later the story changed after new witnesses came forward. Cisneros had accidently locked the children and her keys inside. She could be seen in the cell phone video frantically calling for help.

The suit says KHOU and reporter Rucks Russell published the story with a "reckless disregard for its truth or falsity" and without doing the "most basic fact checking."

According to the suit, nationally syndicated TV personality Nancy Grace even picked it up, calling Cisneros an unfit mother.

http://www.chron.com/houston/article/Katy-Mom-sues-KHOU-after-report-she-left-her-kids-5664555.php

Original story:

http://www.khou.com/story/news/local/2014/07/29/12669102/
 
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vraiblonde

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I hope she makes them file for bankruptcy.

Is this some new fad, freaking out over kids/pets in hot cars? I heard I don't know how many PSAs about it on the radio. Get a life, people.
 

Lurk

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The one witness and camera man sounds an awful lot like Adam Sandler's impression of the burned out hippie. In a related note, I hope Nancy Grace has to do penance too
 

Chris0nllyn

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A Riverdale mother on July 30 was charged with leaving her three young girls unattended in a vehicle in a Fayetteville parking lot.

Det. Mike Whitlow said Courtney B. Tabor, 33, was charged with three misdemeanor counts of leaving a minor child unattended, a city ordinance violation.

Police were subsequently called to the scene, Whitlow said. Once officers in a patrol unit arrived, Tabor approached the vehicle, telling officers she was in the vicinity smoking a cigarette.

Whitlow noted that while Tabor might have been in close proximity, she did not appear to have been focused enough to notice the store’s employees standing by her vehicle.

Whitlow added that, in this particular case, it was not as much a matter of the young children being in a hot car, rather it was the potential for harm or kidnapping that could result from leaving them unattended.

http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/08-01-2014/woman-charged-leaving-three-kids-hot-car
 

StadEMS3

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When I as staioned in Iceland the locals thought nothing of leaving their kids outside in a stroller while they shopped in smaller stores. A lot of larger stores had a kids room at the entrance with a TV and toys to dump the kids while the parents shopped.
 
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