Treffley Coyne, the suburban Chicago mom charged with child abandonment for leaving her sleeping 2-year-old in a locked car while she escorted other children to a Salvation Army Kettle a few feet away, had all charges against her dropped.

Assistant State's Atty. Peggy Gill-Curtin told the judge that the state was dropping the case because "based on the completed investigation into all the facts of the case, the state has concluded it would be unable to meet the burden of proof at trial."

The wording on the Illinois law is so vague, leaving a child under the age of 14 alone in a car to return a shopping cart to a cart corral could be considered abandonment.

I bet this isn't the last we see or hear of Treffley Coyne. She's an Oprah show ratings bonanza just waiting to happen AND she's already in the area!