So I'm reading the local news and the story is sad enough but what pisses me off is that they felt the need to point out that the woman was a former stripper. It has nothing to do with the events, the case, any of it. But hey! Why not mention it? Grrrrrrrrr.....
Police: Fla. Baby Dies In Car With Mother Passed Out Inside
POSTED: 10:27 pm EST March 6, 2006
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A woman whose 4-month-old daughter died after being left in the back seat of a hot car while the woman was passed out in the vehicle was sentenced to five years in prison Monday.
Melisa Wildman, 30, pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter of a child. Circuit Judge Jorge Labarga also sentenced her to 15 years probation.
"Her reckless conduct clearly caused the death of her child," Assistant State Attorney Patrick McKamey told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "She needed to be punished."
Wildman, a former stripper, told police she had consumed Xanax, four or five beers, cocaine and marijuana, in a 12-hour period before the baby died in April 2004.A sheriff's officer and paramedics had found Wildman unconscious in her car just hours before her baby Savanna's death.Two passers-by roused Wildman and an officer let her drive away, though she had two outstanding warrants against her for failure to appear on two charges of driving with a suspended license. She later returned to her apartment and passed out again in the car with her baby in the back, police said.When Wildman woke up, the baby was dead, she allegedly told police. Two hours after her death, Savanna's temperature was 106.3 degrees, police said.
Wildman had been free on bail until September, when she tested positive for cocaine. Wildman faced up to 30 years behind bars if she had been convicted at trial.
Wildman's attorney Gary Ostrow did not immediately return an after-hours call seeking comment.
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Oh, and because no one that wasn't a stripper would EVER do such a thing....idiots.
I believe you Dottie and you have my support 

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