Posted by donaldej3733 on September 19, 2007 at 7:20 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Mr.Gonzalos, don't you think that you should worry about the welfare of the child? To be left alone in a car on a hot day, 5 minutes is to much. White, brown, purple, blue or black the mother need to take responsability. The child could have died!

Posted by RC on September 19, 2007 at 7:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)

this lady made a horrible horrible mistake. hopefuly she will get the help she needs when she goes into the slammer

Posted by AnnaWhaat on September 19, 2007 at 7:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Carlos I cant believe your back. Just trying to get people in a uproar!!!! Get over it. Everyone PLEASE ignore his comments and maybe he will go away again............

I dont believe it was a mistake. I believe it was she was too lazy to take two kids into the store!
I am glad she doesn't have the child right now. What concerns me is if she goes to jail.......Isn't that for people that are doing a year or less? That is NOT justice for this child! I hope she never gets the child back.
RC ,If she goes to Jail they do not offer help. If she goes to prison......then she may get some sort of help. I am praying for prison!!!

Posted by ca4ever on September 19, 2007 at 11:37 a.m. (Suggest removal)

She should go to jail and serve some serious time for what she did. Although alot of you might say "It was an accident, cut her some slack" you would not be saying that if the child died. This was negligence and child endagerment and nobody in their right mind would do this to a child. Hopefully she will think about what she did and not ever do anything that stupid again.

Posted by smithjc on September 19, 2007 at 11:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)

yes, anna, county jail is for people doing terms of up to one year; however, if convicted of multiple crimes and given consecutive sentences, one could conceivably stay longer than a year. since this appears to be only one charge, if she goes to county, she will max out at a year.

any of you familiar with "cool hand luke" will understand what i mean when i say that she should spend the year "in the box". i'm hopeful that it would help her get her mind right. and she should never be allowed to breed again, nor allowed anywhere near the child that she damn near killed.

Posted by angrygirl8284 on September 19, 2007 at 12:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)

smithjc, couldnt have said it better.

Posted by Equitable_Enforcer on September 19, 2007 at 1:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Now that she has entered a guilty plea, there is no potential jury pool to taint with facts which might have demonstrated a course of conduct or level of irresponsibility if allowed at trial.

IF Ms. Moreno, at age 25, had already been cited in Ventura County at least two times for failure to properly restrain her children in a vehicle, had been cited at least two times for no license, insurance or registration and had been convicted once for disturbing the peace (fighting) --- would punishment or "help" be in order? Would children in her custody be in jeopardy?

Having fostered a total of 16 teen aged girls, all with some mental health issues, some from age 12 all the way through high school, I can assure you that the mothers mostly demonstrated the lack of responsibility we see here. In not one single situation was there a functional father in their household. We did our best to work with the mothers so that they could regain custody. Reunification is the order of the day in the courts, even if there is some risk in returning children to the abuser.

Ms. Moreno needs lots of help, but that help has to have more depth than current "programs." I'd like to see a core of volunteer mentors who would be willing to go the extra mile to work with women like her. I believe that most people can be salvaged. In my opinion, current programs are not sufficiently effective.

Posted by BeaHappi on September 19, 2007 at 3:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Who in their right mind leaves an 11-month old in the car at any time of the day or night? Hot, cold, whatever...

There are just way too many stories of children dying from being left in the car and it just floors me that it still happens!

My hope is that she doesn't continue to have kids that she's not equipped to take care of.

Posted by ironwoman on September 19, 2007 at 6:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)

The main issue is this woman, a so-called mother, leaving her baby in a car alone. Regardless if it was hot or cold, it is wrong. Irresponsible people like her should be held accountable for their actions. In this case, she should spend time in jail and not be allowed to have her kids back. I can't possibly believe that she didn't know of the dangers when leaving a baby in a car alone, in hot weather. If she has time to purchase a cell phone at Circuit CIty, then she has time to read the paper and watch the news. Heck, she should have taken some parenting classes before giving birth.
Mistakes can be erased. This was not a mistake, this was a conscious decision and it was a poor one. Bottom line.

Posted by melneejane on September 19, 2007 at 8:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)

She is pregnant again and they have parenting classes in jail for people that will be there longer than a certain period of time which she will.

Posted by narc121 on September 19, 2007 at 8:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Ok, what's up with The Star's headline, "Woman who police said left son in hot car pleads guilty." Is it me, or is the Star eluding that the police made this up? I could have sworn that people called this in and that there were a lot of witnesses! Even with a story as cut and dry as this, the Star has to be negative towards law enforcement. I thought this would stop with Gallagher gone!

Posted by AnnaWhaat on September 19, 2007 at 10:26 p.m.

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Posted by ed1pfa on September 19, 2007 at 10:32 p.m. (Suggest removal)

The topic is about a person who plead guilty to felony child abuse not racism or the history of the southwest.Hopefully Ms.Moreno will be rehabilitated as she serves her sentence.Yes,she deserves to be criticized by the public-at-large and she has to pay the price for her neglecting her child. But foregiveness is also important too.

Posted by FedUp on September 20, 2007 at 11:56 a.m. (Suggest removal)

is she really pregnant again?? if so, I am completely and utterly disgusted right now. people that can't take care of their current kids, have no business having more. she makes me sick!
let the state FIX her!

Posted by angrygirl8284 on September 20, 2007 at 11:59 a.m. (Suggest removal)

p1903gomez, Annawhaat doesnt have to suggest your comment for removal - I already did. And no, I'm not Caucasian. I'm Just a person that hates when people play the race card.

As for Ms. Moreno, as part of her sentencing she should be forced to take parenting classes before she can apply to get her children back.

Posted by ironwoman on September 20, 2007 at 3:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Yes, the race card needs to be left out. There have been many people in the past; white, black, mexican, that leave their kids unattended in a car and at home. The bottom line is....it is wrong, against the law and just plain irresponsible.

Parenting classes may or may not help someone like this. Not everyone has common sense.

Posted by AnnaWhaat on September 20, 2007 at 5:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)

angrygirl8284, Thankyou! I have no clue what it said? But must have been racist. Thank God I do NOT fall into that catagory!!!!!

Posted by desdave on September 20, 2007 at 9:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Not much to add, except that I have to wonder if some of way that they word stories and the titles is to avoid any possible slander law suits? Just like on the tv news when the preface a story with something like "the alledged murderer".

Posted by AnnaWhaat on September 21, 2007 at 7:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)

She pled GUILTY!

Posted by ca4ever on September 21, 2007 at 7:31 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Well I dont know how the race card came into it, but to tell the truth, I am caucasian and 99% of the stories I have heard just like this one, however most of the time with the children not being so lucky and living, have been by white people. Men and woman. In fact, Ms. Moreno is the only hispanic one I can even think of. Does not mean I know all of the statistics, I am just referencing the 10 or so that I can think of.

Posted by AnnaWhaat on September 21, 2007 at 8:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Well it has no play here at all....... were all human. This person that made the comment use to come on all the topics and say something to really piss people off just to sit back all day and laugh. That is why I suggested ignoring the comment.

Posted by caniki27 on September 24, 2007 at 12:26 a.m.

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Posted by saranan14 on March 24, 2008 at 8:03 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I understand where everybody is coming from here, however how many of you have strapped your child in their carseat and realized you forgot something inside. Do you unstrap your child to go get that something, or do you just run in real quick to get it? I have a feeling a lot of you are hipocrits. Think about it. I wouldn't leave my child unattend for a half hour outside in the heat, but I really don't see the harm in it for a minute or two. Especially if the weather is Cr****! Where do you draw the line. There are so many americans who take these things overboard. Nobody has any common sense anymore and the ones who do have common sense can't figure out how to use it.