Child Left in Car, Parents Charged
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Posted: 8:46 PM Jul 31, 2007
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Two people in Huntington now charged with child neglect after leaving a ten month old child in a locked car.

Police say Shane Marcus Klumb left the child unattended in the car while he went into a bar on Ninth Street and was served alcohol by the bartender who is also the baby's mother.

The police report says Tarahlynn Perry was aware the child was in the vehicle and she was also arrested for neglect. The child is now with the maternal grandmother.
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Posted by: Anonymous on Jul 22, 2008 at 09:02 AM
The comment from Tarah on Feb 4, 2008 at 09:01 PM makes me wonder if she is the so called mother. If so, I hope you, or your boyfriend are never allowed to be alone with your child again.
Posted by: Tarah on Feb 4, 2008 at 09:01 PM
If you want the real story then you shouldn't believe what the news said. Some people do eat lunch at 11 pm the ones who have a job working midnight shift and another thing. I have watchs so many of people in four states leave their children in the car to go to the grocery store or to the mall and go shopping cause the kid didn't want to go in. You same people are judging a man that brought his girlfriend something to eat and walk in her work the baby was a sleep and he could see her out the window. So before you focus on this story maybe worry about your own problems before you all judge people.
Posted by: Jett on Aug 3, 2007 at 11:41 AM
This mother doesn't deserve our comments. I am concerned about the victim. What will happen to this child? Her two older children live with their Dad and a wonderful stepmother. I only hope this child will be placed in such a wonderful, loving home. Children of abusive or neglectful parents can suffer problems throughout their lives. I know her two older children and I've seen them cry and ask why mommy lied to them. I've heard her son sob when he was 4 years old that "mommy doesn't love me any more". Her daughter tells her teachers that "mommy lies to us all the time". What does it take for Child Protective Services or some agency to focus on these little voices? Come on people, these children didn't ask to be born. They just want to be loved. Sadly, that is too much for some people to do. My prayers and words are for the victims.
Posted by: anonymous in OH on Aug 3, 2007 at 10:28 AM
This makes me so sick..No child should ever be left alone in a car, especially when you go into a bar to get a drink! Hey Robert...hope you don't have kids if you think that what he did was ok. "STUPID PEOPLE" says it all. Some people should't be allowed to have kids!
Posted by: Beth on Aug 2, 2007 at 07:27 PM
Also, for the one's who think it is ok to leave a baby or child in a car alone, I hope you don't have kids, people make me sick that think it is ok.
Posted by: Beth on Aug 2, 2007 at 07:24 PM
This story makes me so angry. My heart and prayers go out to this baby and hope her parents never are allowed around the baby again.
Posted by: bonn on Aug 2, 2007 at 07:01 PM
what were these people thinking?My kids are 11 and 8 yrs old i dont let them out of my sight when we go out.I cant imagine leaving a 10 month old baby alone in a car by itself.Dont they watch the news and see kids kidnapped and killed.This just is wrong people.You cant trust noone anymore.
Posted by: YouKnow on Aug 2, 2007 at 05:54 PM
What in the world was going through thier minds to let a 10 month old baby sit in the car while he got drunk???? I have a 7 month old and I would never EVER think about leaving her for one second for anything... they need to be locked up and they grandmother needs to keep custody of the child for the rest of its life... if they did it now they will do it again.. they arent parents, theyre just breeders!!! that makes me so mad just thinking about a baby sitting in a hot car while the parents are in a bar.. what great parents they are NO
Posted by: Too get the facts on Aug 2, 2007 at 04:59 PM
It sound to me like you do not deserve to have chldren either all the crime in the world Murder, car jacking,rape child abuse. If you can not make a smart decision to have an eye on your child at all times you do not deserve them get a life!!!! or give up your children befor you forget them for a gallon of milk and some looser breakes the window and steals your child .then what would you say!!!!
Posted by: the real facts on Aug 2, 2007 at 03:31 PM
The real facts about this story. This so called mother has two other children she has signed custody away to their father since they were 3 and 4 years old. She has been reported to child protective services numerous times for neglect and abuse on these two children while visiting her. Child protective services has tried to contact her but has never done anything to protect them. When will the system protect the children and make the mother pay for what she has done in the past and is still doing to this baby now. It is a shame that a mother or boyfriend or anyone would leave an infant that can't take care of itself in a vehicle or anywhere by itself. There is a lot of child abducting all over the news and this was a very stupid stunt to pull. Anyone can have a baby but that does not make you a mother... Grandmother keep the baby from going back and make them realize that God is the creator and the taker of all lives including theirs. Amen to All. Lets get the real help now.
Posted by: Against Abuse on Aug 2, 2007 at 02:25 PM
What the heck??.. You don't crack a window and leave a Kid in a car. I'm glad this Child is with someone that will probably actually love it..and care for it.. I believe you should take an IQ before you are Able to Breed
Posted by: suzy on Aug 2, 2007 at 02:24 PM
the so called parents should be locked up in the heat. makes me sick when a child is in danger like this .i have two grand kids i take care off around the clock what is wrong with these people turn the heat up on them PLEASE LOCK THEM UP KEEP THE BABY AWAY FROM THEM
Posted by: Amber on Aug 2, 2007 at 01:29 PM
Robert you are an idiot. How could you think leaving a ten-month old baby in the car is okay just because she wasn't exposed to heat. I really hope you don't have any kids.
Posted by: Deb on Aug 2, 2007 at 12:18 PM
TO GET THE FACTS 1. you stated "the mother did not serve the boyfriend beer" then about three sentences later you stated " the boyfriend admitted to having two drinks" YOU NEED TO GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT 2. No i DO NOT leave my 1 year old child in the car while i leave to get gas or milk or anything no matter what time it is if i leave my car i take my child with me, that called RESPONSIBILTY. 3. When you have a child you are to put your self last and take care of that child. Babys depends on their parents to survive, if we as parents are unable to do so let somoene else that can do it
Posted by: Jennifer on Aug 2, 2007 at 10:55 AM
STUPID PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BREED!!! I definately agree with that statement. No matter what was going on I don't care if he left the child for 10 seconds in the car by itself...STUPID...STUPID... Who would leave a child in a car alone for any length of time?.. I am a mother and can say I have never left my sleeping child alone in the car EVER...FOR NOTHING...What is sad is that these same people will get this child back and will do this or worse next time..I think CPS should not be so quick to reunite these abused children back with the parents...
Posted by: RE:Sray on Aug 2, 2007 at 10:44 AM
Your quote is correct, but we are talking about a criminal act in which the laws estabilished here on earth take care of the judging, until death they are judged again. Too many good families would love to have a baby and so many neglect the gifts God has given them. Problem is, God is taken out of our schools, public places, ect. Love your children, they are truly a gift from God and if u r given a 2nd chance with that child, never take advantage of that. God Bless all the little children and cover them in the blood of Jesus, we just dont know what they may endure growing up with their families.
Posted by: mike on Aug 2, 2007 at 10:27 AM
to: get the facts Are you just plain stupid or what??? You tell everybody to get the facts first, then act like it's all right to leave a kid in the car alone and that we have all done it. Then you say it was probably a bad decision. Whatever the TRUE facts are, the kid was still left in the car!!!!!
Posted by: Debra on Aug 2, 2007 at 09:11 AM
This is for get the facts, you must be as dumb as he is if you support what he did. It the only thing he was doing was delivering lunch as you say, than why stay and drink. If he was a responsible person he would have had the girlfriend waiting outside he pulled up to the curb. He's the who chosed to leave a baby unattended. The mother isn't much better she apparently thought it was okay. A real mother would have been furious and went and gotten her child from the car.
Posted by: Stupid should hurt on Aug 2, 2007 at 08:37 AM
First, this is a comment for "get the facts". Number one it is a gallon of milk not a gallen of milk, and interesting and not interresting. You say he brought his girlfriend lunch at 11:00 P.M. Isn't lunch normally eaten during the day and not at night. In a responsible parent's life, attending to your child should be more important that drinking 2 drinks. If they were responsible parents, the mother would have gone to the car to get her so called lunch instead of leaving the baby outside in a car left outside of a bar. I mean come on, who leaves their baby unattended outside of a BAR???? Not anyone that should be parents. Leaving a baby unattended these days is bad enough if you are just getting gas, but at a bar, that is pure stupidity.
Posted by: Michelle on Aug 2, 2007 at 12:05 AM
To get the facts; You said the child was left no more than 5 or 10 minutes and you think this is okay? It was 11 pm like you said and you think the child was not in danger? Let's think about this...a small child...alone at night...outside a bar. If mom served the boyfriend two drinks and then was going to let him drive the car with the baby in it then she doesn't have the intelligence to raise children and if you think this situation is okay then neither do you. By the way, I DID NOT leave my kids in the car alone to run in someplace for anything. They were important enough to me that everything else could wait (milk, groceries etc.)
Posted by: Jewell on Aug 1, 2007 at 11:58 PM
I don't care what the situation is, no child should ever be left alone. So many children are kidnapped, whatever the reason was, this child never should have been left alone in the car.
Posted by: Sray on Aug 1, 2007 at 11:43 PM
This is a terrible, terrible thing. I do not agree with this father leaving a child in a car but not everyone thinks or acts like me and you. Lets leave the judging to God and the justice system. "Judge not lest ye be judged by the same judge."
Posted by: Private on Aug 1, 2007 at 09:46 PM
Are you serious? I just can't comprehend how someone could do that to a child? How do you honestly go about that? The sad part is, people like this, who blatantly leave their child in dangerous situations, and unattended, get to keep their children and continue to have more. Children are precious, every one of them, parents need to learn that they brought that child here, it is now THEIR responsibility to raise a happy and healthy, cared for child. If you feel the need to have alcohol instead of your responsibility, their are MANY couples that can't have children, in this area, that WANT a child and would care for it, like their own, think of your options before you endanger a child.
Posted by: Robert on Aug 1, 2007 at 09:33 PM
I don't know why you have this chance to post comments when all you post is negative. If this is about free speech you should post all comments. People should know that tHis baby was not exposed to the heat, there were three windows cracked and she was not in danger from heat.
Posted by: Angry Female on Aug 1, 2007 at 06:58 PM
My brother once had a bupersticker on his car that I loved. It said, "Stupid people shouldn't breed" This statement proves true here! I will never understand our CPS officers and what they are thinking! This isn't the first time that poor child has been neglected I am sure! Once an abuser always an abuser!
Posted by: Get the facts on Aug 1, 2007 at 04:06 PM
You can't always believe what you hear. The child was left for no more that 5 to 10 minutes. The Mother did not serve the boyfriend beer. The window was cracked, and it was not 80 degrees outside. It was 11PM. He just delivered the girlfriend's lunch and talked a few minutes. Have you ever left a sleeping child to pay for gas and grab a gallen of milk? It was a bad decision, but it probably seemed OK at the time. The child was never in danger, she seemed like a happy healthy, much loved baby. The boyfriend admitted to having two drinks, he passed a sobriety test. We all make bad decisions at times and I am glad the baby didn't suffer from this one. If the news had told the truth it wouldn't have been as interresting to most of you. They choose to believe a hostile patron who lied about the circumstances. I will question everthing I hear on the news from now on. Why are people so quick to judge?
Posted by: Joe on Aug 1, 2007 at 12:33 PM
This is just another example of a product being created by unskilled labor. Maybe people should be required to obtain a permit to have children. An awful lot of children seem to suffer due to the lack of intelligence on the adults part. Being able to breed doesn't make you a parent.
Posted by: unknown on Aug 1, 2007 at 11:26 AM
beer or child??? you see they made there mind up.....they don`t need thier child back...could be worst next time....
Posted by: Furious in Ashland on Aug 1, 2007 at 11:24 AM
My oh my.. what has this world come to? These people are sick. I can not understand why someone would do this to a child.. Take it to a babysitter would be my guess before you go get a beer.. So not only was he left outside by itself but he was going to drink a drive with that baby in the car. People like this don't deserve children.. I hope they rot in jail. Bless this baby that it does not have to go back to these awful people. This stuff breaks my heart, tears me in two.. Since when did beer become more important than a child?
Posted by: RAINBOW on Aug 1, 2007 at 10:46 AM
How long was this poor little child left in this car? If it was in the heat of the day lets lock both parents in a car and see how they feel, God Bless that grandmother, Take good Care of that child you will be rewarded later in life for that. Some parents do not know what they have in having a child, IF they were not able to have a child they would be able to see just how special it is. I only hope they learn a lesson from this!
Posted by: ChixieStix on Aug 1, 2007 at 10:33 AM
How can any two people be that stupid? I'm sure glad they saw the need to breed and then lock the kid up in the hot car. Maybe some more brain damage! Won't that be awesome? Seriously, those so-called parents should be locked up and have the key thrown away.
Posted by: Diana on Aug 1, 2007 at 08:47 AM
What type of mom would allow a man to leave her child in the car? If she cared anything about that baby, when she saw him come in and realized that he left the child in the car, she should have walked out and got that baby. In my opinion, when she didn't do this she obviously should that she cares nothing for the child. I agree with the comments this woman should never be allowed to get her back. If they do give her back, next time the baby may not be so lucky and believe me with people like this, there will be a next time. I also think that if they are stupid enough to give her back to her mom than the man who did it should never be allowed around the child again. If were lucky than the grandmother will keep the child.
Posted by: stacy on Aug 1, 2007 at 01:20 AM
SHAME ON MOM AND DAD!!!! They shouldn't be allowed to have their children back!
Posted by: james on Aug 1, 2007 at 12:26 AM
they need to be lock up and charge with child Neglected.. and hot it was today cant belive they left the baby in the car to get beer they dont need kids..
Posted by: Julie on Jul 31, 2007 at 10:14 PM
Some "parents" do not deserve to have children.
Posted by: Stupid on Jul 31, 2007 at 09:28 PM
They need left in the car and locked up but make sure its hot
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