On the show this week, we talked about the case of a woman who briefly left her 2-year-old daughter alone in the car to take her two older daughters to pour coins into a Salvation Army kettle. The woman, Treffly Coyne, was charged with misdemeanor child endangerment and obstructing a peace officer after a Crestwood (a suburb of Chicago) police officer spotted her sleeping daughter alone in the vehicle Dec. 8. She was arrested in a loading zone near the entrance of a Wal-Mart store and always said that 2-year-old Phoebe was safe inside the car after she locked it, activated the alarm system and turned on the emergency flashers. She said she was never more than 30 feet from the vehicle, did not step inside the store and was gone for only minutes. The car was always in sight.

Mom's trial was supposed to begin yesterday, but prosecutors could not meet the burden of proof and decided to drop the charges. Her family is relieved but are upset that they put them through all of this heartache only to drop the charges at the last minute. We, along with a majority our listeners, didn't think she did anything wrong.