A Texas woman may have saved the life of a baby locked in a stranger’s hot car when she broke the window and climbed in to help it to safety. The father has been charged with child neglect.
Angela Radtke used a tire iron to smash through the front windshield of a locked car to rescue a 1-year-old child in an H-E-B supermarket parking lot in San Antonio, Texas. Radtke said the child looked red and hot, but other bystanders and a security guard warned her that she could get arrested if she broke into the car. She broke the windshield then crawled into the car through the opening of broken glass to unlock the door and free the infant.
After police and firefighters arrived, H-E-B surveillance footage showed that the baby was in the car for almost 40 minutes before he was rescued by Radtke. The baby’s father, identified as Richard Elliott, 36, said he forgot his child was in the car. He was arrested and charged with child endangerment. Good Samaritan Radtke was not charged.
The male baby was taken by paramedics to Methodist Children Hospital and treated for dehydration.
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