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Filed under: Places To Go, Health & Safety: Babies, Media
Christina L. Ferschke of Port St. Lucie, Florida went shopping at Sears with her 1-month-old son, poked around the
baby department, finished shopping, got in her car and drove home. 70 minutes later she returned to the store to get
her son, who she claims she forgot.
A review of the store's video tapes showed Ferschke entering the store about 4:07 p.m. She placed a 911 call from her car about 70 minutes later and a store employee located the infant in a car seat on his shopping cart in the store's baby section about 5:42 p.m. That means the baby was alone for more than 90 minutes. Ferschke "insisted that she had no recollection of the time from when she was looking at baby items to the time she called 911," the police report states. The baby was unharmed.
Either that is one quiet baby, or this woman is nuts.
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ReaderComments (Page 5 of 17)
4-13-2006 @ 9:31PM
theresa said...My mom and I were separated in a Montgomery Wards for almost an hour. I was 2. I walked away, and she forgot that she brought me with her to the store.
I don't think she wanted to get rid of me, and she's been a great mom. Fortunately for both of us, an employee found me wandering around and had Mom paged. The mom who left her child at Sears was a new mom and probably extremely tired and just walked away, finished some shopping and started to go home. Terrible? Yes. Criminal? No. I'm just glad that the baby was found safe and unharmed!
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4-13-2006 @ 9:35PM
Frank Crisci said...Who invented liquid soap, and why..??
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4-13-2006 @ 9:36PM
Dawn said...I JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW THE HELL YOU FORGET YOUR CHILD?SHOPPING FOR BABY CLOTHES AND FORGET YOU HAVE A KID. SOMEONE WASNT SLEEP DEPRIVED, POSSIBLY STUPID.
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4-13-2006 @ 9:37PM
Sherry said...This woman is nuts, and anyone who would have a kid and take off and leave it ought to have her cunt sewn up so she couldn't do it again. I've seen how stupid people are when they drive so anything is possible
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4-13-2006 @ 9:40PM
mitzi said...I completely agree with the comment about the irresponsibility of it and lack of sleep IS NO EXCUSE...how could you EVER forget your baby...totally out of concept for me. What could ever be on your mind that would cause you to 'FORGET' your baby? And wise up.....it is NOT okay to drive around with your baby in your lap, change its bottom on a restaraunt table, or walk in a public gas station bathroom BAREFOOT (what about when S.P. starts walking---I dread to know)...and BTW, I can't imagine that the highchair actually broke...where were his parents? Oh thats right in another room....good grief.
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4-13-2006 @ 9:40PM
Sheryl said...Who are we to judge?
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4-13-2006 @ 9:42PM
Candy said...I can sympathize to a point. I've had my daughter in the backseat and started driving to work, forgetting that she was in the backseat and needing to go to the babysitters. The baby is only 1 month old, so the sleep deprivation and brain fogginess is still fresh, but getting in the car and driving home? That's a bit much.....however, sleep deprivation is not just an excuse, it will cause you to completely zone out, even when it comes to your kids.
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4-13-2006 @ 9:43PM
Stacy said...Why didn't the store personnel notice an unattended baby? I understand how her sleep deprived cloudy brain could lose all sense of time, but where were the store employees? Didn't anyone notice a sleeping one-month old infant in a car seat sitting on top of a shopping cart for 90 minutes ALONE?!!!
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4-13-2006 @ 9:43PM
natalie tinell said...instead of beating this young lady up over the internet has any one offered her some help!!!! mabye some counseling or just someone to open up to.
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4-13-2006 @ 9:43PM
Sue said...This mother is a freakin MORON!!!!! I can see forgetting your keys, your purse (maybe), forgetting to collect your change. But leaving your baby behind, this woman should be slapped!!!!!
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4-13-2006 @ 9:44PM
Linda Giffen said...2 days before Christmas a last minute package needed mailing. I stayed in the car & my husband and 1 yr old son went in the post office. Several minutes later my husband got in the car & started to back up.
I asked him where Brandon was. "Oh my God, I forgot him". We ran inside & he was just standing in line good as gold. 24 years later I never let him forget.
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4-13-2006 @ 9:47PM
sue said...My goodness people, give the woman a break. If she was trying to hide the mistake, she would not have called 911. She would have driven back to store and looked for the baby first, quietly, then upon finding him, said nothing to no one. If she could not have found him, then she would have went "hysterical". I do not believe for a second none of these negative commenters have not "forgotten" their baby for a few minutes at least once. I have 3 kids, all grown. I forgot the youngest twice, once at home, once in a rest. True, it was only for a couple of minutes, not 70. But who knows her situation? No really good excuses exist, and no excuses probably exist, other than she FORGOT! Give her a break (I am sure she is being investigated), and be honest about your own slip-ups.
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4-13-2006 @ 9:47PM
Iris said...This Mom needs to be checked out in the ER; she may be fixing to have a stroke or something. Something is missing there if she is not taking drugs or medience.
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4-13-2006 @ 9:48PM
Mimi said...Save for "meg", I don't think many people are seeing the true facts here. The mom ENTERED the store at 4:07. The 911 call was MADE 70 minutes later, about 5:20. This article doesn't give enough information, so some of you are assuming the child was alone for the entire time. We don't know when she left the store. I can totally empathize with this mother. She's still new at this and is probably a creature of habit. She is probably beating herself up for such a horrendous mistake. I don't think she needs self rightous strangers to patronize her in addition to her own guilt. What new moms need is support from not only our family and friends, but from the world wide community of mothers.
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4-13-2006 @ 9:48PM
daustin said...my sister went to the groc.store when her first was home alone and completely forgot. she was about a wk old. i was 19 and horribly left that same niece at 2yrs alone by our pool and forgot her and saw her mom on the hiway and rem. her then and thank God when I went back to our house she was just sitting on the picnic table waiting. Oh how I prayed she would not be drowned,.this is the same child at 1 wk left alone by mom at grandma's when no one else home, then at 2 yrs by me her aunt . wonder how she made it to be a grown up now with two kids of her own . ??????????
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4-13-2006 @ 9:50PM
silvia said...Hey new parents, IT HAPPENS!!!
Happened to my cop husband. Walked into the cafe, sat by the window to eat and looked at his car sure enough the baby was sleeping in the same place HE PUT HIM IN!!!!
Not acceptable, but it happens.
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4-13-2006 @ 9:51PM
L. said...Actually, PPD and lack of sleep are pretty damn good excuses, in my humble opinion.
Do they make what she did acceptable? NO WAY. I don`t think anyone would excuse what this woman did, and I think everyone here agrees she needs some kind of help.
But could PPD/sleep deprivation help explain why she and others (including me) did things like this? I would say, yes.
Namecalling feels good, but doesn`t help anyone.
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4-13-2006 @ 9:52PM
Cinderella said...Bottom line she needs that child taken AWAY christ 90 minutes! i have no sympathy for "tards" sorry i have 4 kids....the first 2 are 13 months apart , and were nevereven left with a sitter! jail her ass and takethe baby she obviously isnt capable of taking care of!
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4-13-2006 @ 9:52PM
mini me said...I have three children, and have had my wacky moments with all, but never anything this wacky. I was in a car accident when I was pregnant with my second child and started yelling at the police to find my babies, one was at day care and the other I was still pregnant with.
As many cases of "amber alerts" and "code adams", she ought to be thanking God that nobody decided to come along and kid nap this baby, hey it happens more than us parents like to admit. From parents leaving the kid in the car while they run in the bank or post office, to grabbing from the park, even snatching out of bedroom windows in the house they live in.
Being a parent is a big responsability, if you are not responsible yourself how can you be responsable for another human, your own baby.
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4-13-2006 @ 9:53PM
April said...Its a Known fact that most of us Male and Female alike suffer from sleep deprivation... especially a new mom.. However.. This is extreme.. Mom should seek Medical Help.. for One.. and Neighbors. and friends.. look in on New Mom's.. and Help when you can.. And Mommy who forgot your child..Stay Home.. Rest.. Don't forget there is a baby who is lying in her/his crib needing to be feed and held...This is frightening. to say the least..what happens when your bathing your child? Gives me the shivers !! Wake Up World..
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