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NEWPORT NEWS, VA.April 29 2008
Kyle T. Greene
Ntl. assoc. Private Officers
www.privateofficer.com — Newport News Police are searching for three suspects accused of shoplifting and leaving a two-year-old behind at the Jefferson Avenue Wal-Mart Thursday afternoon. Police released surveillance video Friday morning showing the scene, but one woman, who wants to remain anonymous, says she doesn’t need the video. She saw it all first hand.
“I was devastated because the little boy was just sitting there crying…with his arms open or whatever.”
Police say after the women were caught shoplifting, they ran. Eventually, one of the women came back and asked WalMart security not to call police. When the guard told her the police had already been called, she ran, again leaving the little boy behind according to police.
Newport News Public Information Officer Lou Thurston says the surveillance video will be used as evidence.
“There is actually some parts of the video that disturb me greatly because the child is so far removed from any adult that anyone, and in fact one gentleman did walk past the child who was standing there, it’s disturbing that anyone could walk up and take this child and go off with him. That’s very disturbing,” says Thurston. “There’s also some video where the security personnel from Wal-Mart take charge of the child, but that could’ve been anybody if it wasn’t the security person.”
Thurston says the mother was not at the store when her son was abandoned and that she had left her child in another woman’s care. Police need that woman’s name.
“The mother is not the most cooperative person toward us and I kind of have to leave it at that,” says Thurston.
Now police are working hard to find answers while Hampton Roads residents are working hard to grasp how this could happen.
“The larceny is one thing, but abandoning a child is just, it’s horrific,” says Thurston.
Thurston also says the suspects face charges of Larceny and Child Neglect which *could* turn into felonies. There’s no word yet on if the mother could face any charges.
If you have any information that could help police, call the Crimeline at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
“I was devastated because the little boy was just sitting there crying…with his arms open or whatever.”
Police say after the women were caught shoplifting, they ran. Eventually, one of the women came back and asked WalMart security not to call police. When the guard told her the police had already been called, she ran, again leaving the little boy behind according to police.
Newport News Public Information Officer Lou Thurston says the surveillance video will be used as evidence.
“There is actually some parts of the video that disturb me greatly because the child is so far removed from any adult that anyone, and in fact one gentleman did walk past the child who was standing there, it’s disturbing that anyone could walk up and take this child and go off with him. That’s very disturbing,” says Thurston. “There’s also some video where the security personnel from Wal-Mart take charge of the child, but that could’ve been anybody if it wasn’t the security person.”
Thurston says the mother was not at the store when her son was abandoned and that she had left her child in another woman’s care. Police need that woman’s name.
“The mother is not the most cooperative person toward us and I kind of have to leave it at that,” says Thurston.
Now police are working hard to find answers while Hampton Roads residents are working hard to grasp how this could happen.
“The larceny is one thing, but abandoning a child is just, it’s horrific,” says Thurston.
Thurston also says the suspects face charges of Larceny and Child Neglect which *could* turn into felonies. There’s no word yet on if the mother could face any charges.
If you have any information that could help police, call the Crimeline at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.
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