17-month-old boy found inside shopping cart in supermarket parking lot was 'accidentally' left behind by mother
A mother is currently facing charges after the authorities say that she forgot her 17-month-old child in a shopping cart outside a Target outlet on September 22 afternoon. 27-year-old Taylor Perdue from Acton, Maine, is to appear in court on a charge of abandonment or endangerment of a child. Police officers responded to a call from the Target outlet on 41 Robert Drive at around 1 pm and they were told that a male child had been found unattended in a shopping cart in the parking lot of the department store.
The shopper who found the child and notified the authorities had stayed with him till the officers arrived at the scene. The child was found to be unharmed when he was evaluated by the firefighters and officers from the Easton Police Department.
The Enterprise reported that the child was taken in an ambulance to the Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton for further check-ups after he was evaluated in the parking lot. The officers spoke to the witness who told them that the child had last been seen with two adult females and two adult males who had all been shopping inside the department store.