TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- A tow truck driver in Tampa, Fla., says he found a 13-month-old boy alone inside a car that barely had its windows cracked open.
Tow truck driver John Davenport said after noticing the infant inside a child safety seat in a 1995 Nissan he was about to tow Tuesday, he immediately contacted his dispatcher and then the police, The St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported Wednesday.
Davenport said he forced open one of the vehicle's doors to provide additional air for the child while waiting for authorities to arrive.
The tow truck driver said after police took custody of the child, the boy's mother appeared unconcerned about her child's former predicament. Davenport estimates the child was in the car for at least a half hour before he found him.
"It took an hour for someone to come pick up the baby from the police," he said of the child's unidentified mother. "But even then she wasn't panicking about her baby."
The Times said Edward Lee Riley, the 34-year-old owner of the vehicle and the child's father, was charged with child neglect in the incident, while the case was being investigated by the Department of Children and Families.
