Baby Left With Note in Car Sparks Online Outrage

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A New Zealand baby was left inside a locked car outside a supermarket with a note saying to “call mother if I need anything.”



A photo of the sleeping baby with the note sparked public and online outrage.



The baby was left in the car at the Pak’nSave in Porirua on Saturday, reported Stuff.co.nz. The infant was wrapped in a blanket and had a cap on.



Porirua Police Senior Sergeant Justin Rakena said his office cannot do anything about it because no complaints have been lodged.



“We were never called at the time, so we’ve got nothing to go on. We’d look at it like we look at anything,’ he said.



Rakena said that children being left in cars is commonplace in the area. “This is quite common, and quite often there’s an innocent explanation. At a guess I’d say 95 percent of these things can be explained away,” he said.



But a local man told the New Zealand Herald that he saw the baby with the note after he parked next to the car.



“We waited there for a little bit, wondering if the mum was just going to be two seconds and come back. And my wife said, ‘I’m not going in without someone being here with the baby,’” the man, who was not identified, told the the paper.



New Zealand mother Kim Howan told 3News: “I actually think it’s quite terrible. I’ve got four in there, not my own, but took them in, just to get bacon. It takes 20 minutes longer, but they’re safe.”



Sue Campbell, the Plunket national child safety adviser, told the Herald that leaving a baby in a car unattended is problematic.



“Babies can dehydrate quickly and become very distressed. So for a newborn that’s one of the key issues. Plus there’s a security issue--a small baby is unable to defend itself if need be, or call for help, or anything like that,” she said.



A photo of the baby was posted on radio personality Polly Gillespie’s Facebook page. Many of the comments expressed outrage.

But another New Zealand mother, Danielle Crooks, said, “She did the best she thought in the situation by leaving a note,” according to 3News. “There’s probably plenty of kids that get left in the car that you don’t know about without notes.”

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Guess they'll do something when they find a dead baby left alone in a car. This is just unbelievable!