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A Maine mother is accused of abandoning her 17-month-old son in a race car in a parking lot at a Target store in Easton, police said.
The 27-year-old woman from Acton, Maine, who has not been identified, has been charged with abandoning / endangering a child. She must appear in Taunton District Court at a later date. His identity is retained to protect the identification of the victim in the case.
Police responded at 1 pm Saturday at the store on Robert Drive after receiving a call about a baby who was found in the store parking lot in a car all by himself.
The child did not appear to be injured and was assessed by members of the Easton Fire Department before being taken by ambulance to the Good Samaritan Medical Center for an evaluation. .
In investigating the incident, the Easton police received a call at 2 pm of a man stating that the child had been left in the parking lot accidentally. The appellant was with the child's mother in Plymouth, the police said.
Wife said after leaving Target, she returned to her vehicle, along with three friends, and believed that one of her friends had put her son in his car seat, police said.
She then went to Plymouth in her vehicle while her friends left in a separate vehicle, the police said. Upon arriving in Plymouth, the woman claimed to have realized that her son was not in the car seat.
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