There are two more stories in today’s news that involve idiot parents who made the choice to take their kids shoplifting. In both cases, when the parents were approached by store loss prevention, they fled and left their kids behind. And, in both cases, the kids were placed in extreme danger.

In the first case, Gerardo Rodriguez, 24, and Yanira Camargo, 22, were allegedly shoplifting at Kohl’s in Fillmore, CA, with their 4 year old daughter in the shopping cart. When they attempted to exit, they were approached by store loss prevention agents. At this point, they both ran away, leaving their daughter in the cart in the parking lot. According to police, the little girl was then almost hit by a car traveling through the parking lot. The two cowards got away, for the moment. The little girl was placed with a guardian by police.

Then, there is the case in Brockton, MA, where Jose Capeda-Irizarry and Leyda Meried Lopez stole two televisions from the local Walmart by placing them into their infant’s stroller. When they were approached by loss prevention, Irizarry ran off with the stroller, baby still inside. He ran through traffic, but then abandoned the stroller and baby to save his own skin.

Both sets of so-called parents left behind their own kids in order to avoid being charged for shoplifting. Both of the children in these cases could have been injured or killed because their parents chose to leave them behind so they could escape after stealing from a retailer. Can anybody say, “Wreckless endangerment”?

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