WATCH ABOVE: A mother weeps as she describes the pain of forgetting her child.
TORONTO – An Arizona couple is speaking out after the mother forgot her two-month-old child in a shopping cart at a store for an alleged ‘two hours’ and became the victim of online backlash.
Cherish Peterson was shopping at Fry’s Food and Drug in Gilbert – a suburb Southeast of Phoenix – with three of her four children one week ago. She managed to get two kids in the car but departed before she took her two-month-old son and his carrier out of a shopping cart.
“As I was pulling into the garage, my 3-year-old goes, where’s baby Huxton?'” Peterson told KPHO. “His car seat is right behind me. I turned around and realized it was gone.”
An off-duty police officer noticed Huxton and brought him to safety before his mother returned.
When news of the incident broke Peterson almost immediately became the target of online criticism.
WATCH: A two-month-old baby from Gilbert, Arizona is doing just fine after the mother forgot the child in a shopping cart. Gia Vang reports.
“That woman should lose all her children!” a Facebook post by user Joanne Fleury read. Other comments accused Peterson of being under the influence of alcohol and drugs while at least one other alleged it was Peterson’s intent to abandon the child.
The Internet’s venom hit the Peterson household hard.
“I’m a good mom who made a horrible mistake,” she admitted in a tearful interview with KPHO as her husband, Nathan, sat by her side.
Despite admitting her wrongdoing and the remorse she appears to feel, Peterson may still face legal trouble. A misdemeanor charge of child endangerment has been forwarded to the town prosecutor.
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