A police officer’s body camera captured the dramatic moment a mother is confronted for leaving her child in a hot auto – and a bystander incorrectly tells her that the child has died.
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Hannah Victoria Secondi, 38, of Talala, was taken into custody around 6 p.m. Tuesday after she reportedly left her child in her parked vehicle in the parking lot of Wal-Mart on 96th Street North. The woman is seen crying and screaming, “I can’t believe I did that!” Oh, my god! My husband’s going to kill. They found one of the doors unlocked and a child covered in sweat.
“There was no reason why the baby should have been left in the vehicle”, Chrysty Landowne, who called emergency services after making the discovery with her boyfriend, Jedidiah Bizzell, told ABC. She was held in lieu of $50,000 bail, reported by KFOR.
The camera captured the initial confrontation with police.
“No, she’s not”, the officer says.
When Secondi walked out of the store and noticed first responders were at the scene, she reportedly “began frantically asking if her child was deceased”. Reported by court documents, the toddler had been locked inside the vehicle for more than 45 minutes and firefighters stated that the vehicle had “reached internal temperatures of 120 to 138 degrees”, reports Tulsa World.
“It’s not like she just, you know, ‘Oh, I just ran inside really quick”.
“If the baby would have been unconscious or asleep, we would have had no idea”, Bizzell said.
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The girl was treated by medical crews and she is now with her father.
