Mom left child in baking in car -- while she went to tanning salon

A Colorado mom is in hot water with cops after leaving her toddler in a hot car – while she went to a tanning bed.

Imene Nouis, 31, was cited for child abuse on Thursday after cops removed her toddler from her car in Parker, Colorado.



Cops said temperatures had reached a blistering 135 degrees inside the potentially deadly vehicle, Fox 31 reported.



"I had a bad judgment," Nouis told 9NEWS on Friday. "Obviously, I'm going to be punished for it."



An alert witness called cops after spotting the helpless kid inside the car, with windows rolled up and the air conditioning off, according to the report.



"I put my ear against the driver side window and I could hear the baby crying,” an employee of the tanning salon told 9News.



After cops rescued the child, employees at the tanning salon went to get the neglectful mom from her tanning bed – where she had been frying for about 12 minutes. She reportedly told cops that she didn’t want to wake up the sleeping child and decided instead just to leave her in the car.



Later, when reporters caught up the shamed mom, she was holding her daughter in her arms – who appeared to be happy and smiling.



"As a human, tell me one person that hasn't made a mistake," she told 9News. "Thank God it wasn't a detrimental mistake."



At least she had rolled up the windows and locked the doors so nobody could steal the baby, though! When you combine this story with the one about the mom who left her kid in the rain to go drink in a bar, you start to get the idea that there's no "perfect" weather for abandoning your kids in public places, even temporarily.



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