Sentenced: Angry Woman Who Left Child In Hot Car Gets ARD

[Sugar Cookie]

A Bird who allegedly left her baby in a hot vehicle while she went shopping in August has entered the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program.

Denae Chavous, 33, will be under ARD supervision for two years and perform 32 hours of community service under the agreement signed by Delaware County Common Pleas Judge G. Michael Green.

Chavous will also comply with Children and Youth Services recommendations, have no illegal contact or behavior with the child, and pay $150 toward costs of the program, under terms set by Assistant District Attorney Katie Magee and defense counsel James Bonner.

Chavous was charged Aug. 14 with reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child after she allegedly left her 20-month-old son unattended in her car for approximately 25 minutes to go shopping at the Dollar Tree store in the Pilgrim Gardens Shopping Center.

The child was discovered when township parking enforcement officer Bradley Carrea was writing a ticket for Chavous’ Nissan Altima at 5:09 p.m. He waited several minutes to see if the owner was nearby before calling police.

Officer Francis Devine said in an affidavit of probable cause that the child’s head was “slumped down” when he arrived on scene, and he appeared to be sweating, with shallow breathing. The windows were up and the vehicle was not running, according to Devine.

Devine removed the baby after opening an unlocked door and placed the child in his air-conditioned police vehicle. The outside temperature at the time was 86 degrees.

“Rather than ask if her child was alright she pointed to the lock-out kit that was on her trunk and demanded Officer (Jeffrey) Dougherty move it off her vehicle,” according to an incident report. “She then went on to state that she had only left her child alone for five minutes and demanded we give her child back.”

Chavous allegedly became belligerent when officers tried to explain the timeline to her, pushing Dougherty away when officers attempted to place her under arrest. Devine was able to secure the woman and put handcuffs on her.

The child was later taken to Delaware County Memorial Hospital, where he reportedly drank a lot of fluids and recovered.

Woman who left child in hot car gets ARD

MEDIA COURTHOUSE – An Upper Darby woman who allegedly left her baby in a hot vehicle while she went shopping in August has entered the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program. Denae Chavous, 33, of the first block of West…

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[Sejanus]

Why does anyone shop at Dollar Tree it is such a dive of a rats nest that is overpriced.
That in itself is an obvious crime

 

[Sevens My Charm]

Devine... Was the divine intervention ❤

 

[George Spelvin]

We'll be hearing from this fine specimen again. God help her kid after the morons let her at it again.

 

[rushman]

"A Bird who allegedly left her baby in a hot vehicle while she went shopping"................................So birds shop?

 

[myra manes]

"A Bird who allegedly left her baby in a hot vehicle while she went shopping"................................So birds shop?

Yeah, someone didn't proof read the article!

 

[Ramona the brave]

She sounds... unnecessarily belligerent. What is ARD? Is it going to improve her nasty disposition?

 

[GoneWest]

Why does anyone shop at Dollar Tree it is such a dive of a rats nest that is overpriced.
That in itself is an obvious crime

OMGosh I love that place! It’s a teacher’s dream come true. And it’s super fun to keep asking the clerks how much stuff costs-no matter how many times they tell you EVERYTHING IS LITERALLY A DOLLAR!

 

[Bobbo]

Sadly, I get the feeling that that kid is as good as dead.