Officer’s body camera captures mom being confronted after leaving toddler in
The child’s mother, Hannah Secondi, was confronted by police in the store parking lot, with an officer’s body cam capturing her reaction.
“No, she’s not”, the officer replied.
Footage captured on the arresting officer’s body camera shows her distress upon being told her child had been left in the scorching vehicle.
A police report says the child was left alone for about 45 minutes in the minivan which reached internal temperatures of 120 to 138 degrees.
“To my understanding, the condition of the little girl (when admitted to the hospital) was that she had a core temperature of 100.6 degrees, which was bad but surprisingly, not as bad as it could have been, given how long it’s believed that she was left in the vehicle during the heat of the day”, Capt. Townsend said.
“Oh, my God!”, a woman off-camera said.
The toddler was treated and released into the custody of her father after the incident. “Oh my God”, Secondi can be heard saying.
The toddler was discovered inside the van by a couple who walked by the vehicle in a Walmart parking lot and heard something.
“It’s not like she just, you know, ‘Oh, I just ran inside really quick”.
Witnesses said Secondi’s teenage daughter and other people with her at the time, leaving them mystified as to how they all could have forgotten the young girl inside the hot auto. Even after the officer assures Secondi that her child is alive, she continues to openly weep.
According to authorities, she has been formally charged with child abuse. The child was discovered covered in sweat by Chrysty Lansdowne and her boyfriend Jedidiah Bizzell, and they called 911.