COMMERCE, Ga. — A Georgia couple got so carried away with snagging Black Friday deals, authorities say, that they left their children alone in a shopping cart.
Banks County Sheriff Charles Chapman tells WSB radio that 35-year-old Mario Navarro and 31-year-old Esmeralda Elias have been charged with reckless conduct.
Chapman said the two left their 9-year-old and 9-month-old children in a shopping cart at the Banks Crossing Walmart so they could go shopping.
Chapman tells WSB the couple apparently thought the kids would slow them down. The children were not harmed.
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Why are their last names different?
Why does it matter? What matters is that the kids are unharmed.
RSG Probably different fathers...
Those creeps placed more value on cheap deals than they do their own kids! There were two parents in the same store, why couldn't one push the cart while the other shopped and then swap off like any couple with common sense would have done. Better yet, arrange for a babysitter! I wonder how far away from the cart the parents drifted and for how long were the kids left alone? This kind of story really burns me up!!
Why are their last names of latin origin???? Certain ethnicity's seem to treat their children like animals.
My parents left us kids alone in the car many, many times. And my parents would tell me to watch my little sister in a store, and they would go do what they needed to do. This is just dumb. A 9 year old is not helpless.
corqimom, Are you for real? You think it is ok to leave your children alone? To bad your parents weren't ever arrested.
corgi maybe your parents should've cracked the windows a bit while you were in that car.... leaving a nine year old is irresponsible enough, but putting one in charge of a NINE MONTH OLD is insane.
The last names of the adults are different, not of the children. This has nothing to do with different fathers. What a racist comment. It is very common in Hispanic cultures for the husband and wife to have different last names.
Guess you didn't grow up in a big family. I did. By the time I was 9, I had TWO little sisters to watch over.