OKLAHOMA CITY — A woman was arrested on Mother’s Day after Police say she left her 4-year-old inside a car while she drank with her boyfriend.
Police responded to a call from a bartender at Lumpy’s Sports Grill Sunday evening and found the toddler in the back seat of the mother’s car sleeping. Hayley Dawn Hampton, 28, said she came to the bar to pick up her boyfriend but decided to stay to ‘celebrate’ the holiday.
From KOCO: “The bartender said the boyfriend went outside for about 10 to 15 minutes to look after the child when Hampton arrived at the bar, according to the report. The bartender said she became concerned when neither Hampton nor the boyfriend went back out to stay with the child and said she went outside for about 15 minutes before calling police, according to the report.
Neither Hampton nor the boyfriend went outside between the time the bartender called police and when police arrived, the report said.”
Hampton was arrested and charged with child neglect. The boyfriend was not charged as he does not have custody of the child.
