mesoteto on 13 March 2008
@EDIT--UPDATE
Associated Press - March 13, 2008 12:43 PM ET
CHICAGO (AP) - Misdemeanor charges will be dropped against an Illinois woman who briefly left her 2-year-old daughter in the car to take her two older daughters to pour coins into a Salvation Army kettle.
Crestwood Police Chief Timothy Sulikowski (suhl-ih-KOW'-skee) says prosecutors told him that they'll ask a judge to dismiss child endangerment and obstructing a peace officer charges against Treffly Coyne later in the day Thursday.
Coyne was arrested Dec. 8 outside a store in the Chicago suburb of Crestwood. She says she was outside her car for just a few minutes and no more than 10 yards away.
Coyne says her younger daughter was asleep and safe inside the locked car.
