Why did she leave the car running with the baby inside, stupid, stupid, stupid.

Anyone that does that does not deserve to be a parent.

I don’t agree with leaving kids in cars unattended, but we don’t know the parents situation. I am sure the parents are in a living hell right now. The best thing we can all do is PRAY.

How about the asshat who stole the car ??? Make sure you don’t blame them first

sometimes you can not control it like christina said we dont know the parents situation!!!! they lost their 11 month old baby boy!!! i couldnt even imagine how she must be feeling!! no i dont agree with it either, but sometimes you just have toooooo! they are missing their baby and you are sitting there saying how stupid they are! seriously! grow up!

Plenty of time for finger pointing later. You people who never make mistakes will get your pint of blood…But for now, maybe you can just pray that the child makes it home safely.

the guy/girl who stole the car is in the wrong here! not the family with the missing child!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

their family will be in my prayers!!! and i hope they will get their baby boy home safe tonight!!!!!

Seriously folks–We’ve ALL run inside because we forgot something like a diaper bag or a laptop. Best to hope for the best instead of being judge-mental

Why do you assume it was the mother who left the child in the car? It could very well have been the father. Don’t be so quick to judge, it only perpetuates sexism.

Why in god’s name would you leave your child in a running car….?!!! Obviously the parents had a major lapse in judgment…. someone PLEASE call child protection

missing baby found safe in maplewood!!!!!!!!
thank god!!!!
baby found outside still strapped in carseat!!!!!
thankfully baby is ok and can go back to his parents!!

Who cares if it was the mom or the dad. Point is that this could totally have been prevented if the parent had been responsible. All of you weak-hearted people that are trying to defend the parent’s actions obviously are just as bad a parent as this idiot. Honestly, is the time saved by not bringing your kid back in the store really worth potentially putting them in a life-threatening situation? Anyone who tries to justify any answer other than “No” is a direct example of how our society is losing its ability to hold people accountable for their actions. No one said don’t help find the child; we’re just saying that we don’t feel sorry for the moronic parent that put their child in a really bad situation. End of discussion!

who said we were defending them. i would defend the parents but would NEVER personaly leave my child in the car alone. they have there way and we have ours. just be happy the boy was found safe.

If you’re going to leave your child in the car for a minute or two at least turn it off and lock it up just like you would if you leaving your iPhone in it.

I agree with realist, It is Illegal in the State of MN to leave your child in a car unattended. It is NOT hard to grab your child out of the car quickly and bring them in with you. And if you don’t want to take the time you don’t deserve to be a parent. Parenting is hard and it’s a lot of work and time but thats what you signed up for when you decided to raise that child. This family is very fortunate that the situation turned out as well as it did. But I hope this is a LESSON to all those LAZY Parents our there. Bring your kids with you, you never know what can happen in a instant. There are so many other scary situations out there that you can’t control but this one you could! Don’t make excuses for the parents this is a clear case of Laziness and that is why we have these state laws in Effect in MN.

Those without sin cast the first stone . . .Of course the parent that left the baby in the car made a huge mistake. There really aren’t any good excuses. However, that doesn’t mean they are a bad parent. We all do things at one time or another that we live to regret. Fortunately the mistakes don’t always have such drastic results . . but sometimes they are definitely worse. I’ll never forget seeing flames going up the wall behind my gas stove years ago and I did the “right” thing by getting out of the house and going for help . . while leaving my young daughter sitting at the dinner table. I had panicked and totally lost my senses for the moment. Fortunately the house didn’t blow up and my daughter is now 29 years old. To my knowledge that is the only time I ever really did something that endangered her. We don’t know if this parent has a pattern of bad decisions or not and shouldn’t assume that they do.

Thank goodness and God (and who is to say that prayers over this didn’t help in a somewhat speedy and safe recovery of the child.) that the little guy was found and is safe.

This article doesn’t even identify who it was that left the car running with the child inside. Due to the time it is easy to ASSUME it was one of the parents, but that may not be the case. Obviously a huge mistake was made here . .and Minnesota law was even broken. But that still doesn’t erase the fact that the real perpetrator was the person who stole the car and then just dumped the baby. The child was set in harms way, but had the thief not taken the car . . . . There is enough blame to go around. I just hope that whoever has that vehicle gets caught and can be charged for what they did. And it may come to pass that the person who left the child in the vehicle faces a fine at the very least.

Pray for what ? If you see someone drowning are you going to pray or put your hand out and pull them to safety? I’ll go with pull them out I’m sure the person drowning would prefer it also

[...] Paul police are looking for help in locating a car stolen with a baby inside. (Update: found!) [...]

thank god it was warm enough outside for the baby to survive! but still, DO NOT LEAVE YOUR KIDS IN THE CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blame the parent? Blame the low life scumbag bottom feeder who stole the car!! you cant tell me he didn’t see the baby on board what a piece of garbage this person must be, that is if you can call someone like this a person. And then he leaves the kid out in the cold beside! I’d like to nail him to the sidewalk out in the cold!

Blame the parent? how about blame the social misfit who stole the car. Then if that wasn’t bad enough he leaves the kid out in the cold! he should be in a cage OUT IN THE COLD!!!!!!

I was the person that found the boy. I just wanted to say that everyone makes mistakes and then we learn from them. I am just thankful I was able to help and get him back safely to his parents. I am a mother myself and I only hope that if I ever needed help someone could return a favor like that to me. =)

does the XX at the beginning of the license plate mean something, it used to, but I do not know if MN uses the code any more.

Anyone who have every had a child missing even for a second knows the utter fear this young couple just went through. I remember when I had my first child, 20 years ago, a girl. Still a new mother, we had just won a $50.00 gift certificate to Pamida we where busy talking about what we where going to use it on. We went there got a cart and started shopping. By the time we got to the register and unloaded the cart we realized our daughter was not there. UTTER PANICK went through both of us. Dad ran out to the car and there she was still in the car seat. Needless to say nothing like that every happend again and boy where we taught a lesson. It’s not like what they just went through but the initial shock and horror of not knowing where your child is, is the same. It did not, does not mean that I was a bad parent nor does this incident make these Parents bad Parents. It would be nice if those of you out there who are trying to tear apart these Good Loving Parents if you could please turn your negative enegry towards the government and get us out of the economic crisis. I’m sure if a horrible event like this happend upon your family you’d appreciate the same.