Tot falls out of car, mom allegedly doesn't notice

Associated Press
Jul. 7, 2005 04:00 PM

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A woman was ordered jailed on child abuse charges Thursday after she allegedly failed to notice that her unrestrained toddler had tumbled out of her car as it rounded a curve.

The child suffered cuts and bruises and was rescued from the street by several passersby.

Besides child abuse, LarHonda McMillan, 23, was booked on charges of child neglect, reckless endangerment and driving under the influence. She told a judge that she's been under a lot of stress and is also battling cocaine addiction. advertisement







"I'm working on third shift, and I'm a single parent, and at the same time I'm trying to do better for me and my child and it's hard," she said before she was ordered jailed on $79,000 bond.

It took police about four hours Wednesday afternoon to identify the boy as Ladarius McMillan, believed to be about 2 years old. He was treated at a hospital for minor injuries.

"Three family members called within about five minutes of each other after they saw the news on TV," said police Detective Rickey Ollis.

Witnesses said they saw the boy jumping up and down in the car's back seat, Ollis said. When the vehicle rounded a curve, the boy fell out after opening the door and the car drove on without him.

Witnesses tried to stop the mother by yelling and honking their horns, but were unsuccessful.

The child was placed in the custody of the state Department of Children's Services and remains in a foster home, spokeswoman K. Danielle Edwards said Thursday.

State law requires children ages 1-3 to be secured in a safety seat; violators can be fined $50. There was no immediate word whether a citation would be issued for that infraction.


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She did a bad bad thing


I hope for the kids sake she never gets him back.

OMG...it makes me want to sream reading this . I have a two year old. I have NEVER went anywhere with my son NOT in a childseat. And let me tell you, I have child locks on my car door, I never leave his window open and I look thru the rearview window so many damn times to check on him and my daughters that if something did happen I would have enough time to grab him. Besides if that child was jumping around in the back seat more than likely he was making sounds like any other two year old would so she should have noticed the sudden silence. That poor child. That woman should be thrown from a moving car. So she can see the pain her poor child went thru.

At the current point of time she is obviously not fit to be a mother, she is fighting a drug addiction for crying out loud!

Some people should not breed.

single parent, cocaine addiction, pregnant at 21, and not looking after her baby.

Sounds like a typical female Ned

What's that mean, exactly?

she just proves the point one does'nt have to be intellegent to become a parent!

Where's the father?

Stupid question, I know.

I guess some folks just have their heads up their backsides or as my father used to say "Cranial Rectal Inversion". Some "people" just cannot fathom the concept of the baby comes first. This woman doesn't deserve this child nor should she ever get this child back. She should be sterlized so that she can never have another child.

"CRANIAL RECTAL INVERSION"

HAHAHA
I'll have to remember that one

seriously... we should throw that woman from a car window and see how she likes it. I'll be she'll think twice about using and driving... and sew her damn legs shut... she needs to breed no more.

What does that mean?

My kids at that age used to scream if the car was started without them being buckled up.

Unfortunately, many states have "parental re-unification" programs that give these kinds of people umpteen chances.

My eldest son still yells if he's not buckled up when I start the car. In NJ, you have to keep them in seats till they are 8 yrs old.

Having gone thru family court with my ex-husband, I know all about family reunification. It is the most horrible thing. This woman should NEVER get that child back.

What this women did was proof that she is not fit to look after a child in her current state of attitude.

I understand anger and resentment at such a selfish women, but I have to say it even though ill be attacked for it…… What ever happened to forgiveness, and the fact that some people can change?. I’m sure the child will forgive his mother when he gets old enough to understand.

I am aware that this is the highest level of incompetence that a parent can do, but do not burn the women at the stake, yes she messed up big time, and I am angered at her, but I will say that I hope she sorts out her life and gets her mind straight, and maybe she can then prove that she has turned her self around and is given a second chance at motherhood, because a child being taken away from his mother is a horrible scenario, and a damaging thing to any child.

As it stands she doesn’t deserve a child, but I hope she can find away to put right her wrongs, if not for her sake for the child’s sake.

All this talk of taking her baby away from her for good, and sterilising her is a little harsh in my opinion, what ever happened to giving people a second chance? We all mess up, maybe not to the extent that this women did, but wouldn’t you want a second chance?

It does not excuse it in anyway, because there is no excuse for her stupidity, but people can change and can honestly become better people. We do not know the women, or her life, or the whole circumstances behind it, so I say do not condemn her as a devil completely, I would rather she has the courage to redeem her self and get back on the right track, which might even help others that are in the same pitiful state she is in, and help others get out of the dark places they find them selves in, just as she is in now .

All the best
Faeden

I definately hope that this woman is able to get clean from her addiction and become a wonderful member of society. I hope that someday her child can look her up and they can have a positive relationship.

At this point.... she willfully practiced behavior that would put her child at serious risk. The child should be put in a situation of love and protection and REMAIN there in that stable environment until that child is grown and able to understand the situation with their mother.

Talon's statement about neds seems to have caused some confusion.

Neds are a social subclass, perhaps distantly related to humans. In england, they are known as Chavs.

omg i can't even believe that, i am very aware of my son's actions in the car simplycause every child plays with the handle, but to not notice, gees my son fell out of the cart at wal-mart last week (i was watching him just couldn't reach in time) and he fell out head first into the floor i damn near had a heart attack i felt so bad i cried with him.

the mother is just plain negligent.. she should attend first to the safety of her child no matter what

Yes, it was a terrible thing. The child should never have had to go through that. BUT. When I was a child (many, many moons ago now) there were no laws about seat belts (if a car had them, they were only in the front seat, not in the back) and certainly no child/infant car seats. I'm told that I was placed in a laundry basket when I was a baby and had to be taken out in the car. I'm not even very old, and did not grow up in the back of beyond, but in a suburb of
Chicago (if you saw the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, you have seen my hometown). I also remember jumping up and down while riding in the back seat of our car on a particularly curvy, hilly local road, know to my family as the Dipsy Doodle (also featured in the movie above mentioned, as where his friend with the car lived). And that's what it was like for everyone, back then. And we all survived. Of course, I realize that there are more cars on the road now, (thanks, baby boomers) and that cars are not as heavy as they used to be. And I'm not saying that we shouldn't have child protection laws, just that at one time, such laws didn't exist.

Anyway, the mother needs help, not angry accusations. She shouldn't have done what she did, but who among us has never made a mistake. Let's just give thanks that it didn't end in worse injury to the child, or even death. Give the mother the help she needs, and try to make sure this never happens again with ANY child.

I remember when we used to drive to Florida for vacations, I'd lay down in the back window.

The 70's were dangerous times....

Good post...This really is a sign of the times, it wasn't really that long ago that there was any laws about sealt belts and for how children were belted in during transit. I can remember as a child often fighting with my sister in the back seat, pulling the back seats down and climbing in and out of the boot (trunk) lol whilst on journeys and not an eye lid batted, it's what kids did. Had this incident happened even 10 years ago i doubt there would have been as much outrage as expressed now. It was a tradgic accident and to keep things in perspective, even during the 'wild free days of non seatbelt laws' a child falling out of a car would have been a very rare event. It wouldn't have been seen as a sign of bad parenting.

This woman obvisouly needs help!! Maybe after her child grew out of his infant seat then she never bought a toddler seat. I am only guessing that she never bought one because she spent her money on cocaine. At this time in her life she definetly does not deserve a child. Hopefully she will get the help she needs and straighten up.

By the way~~Nice to see you Faeden!! I haven't seen ya in a long while on here and hope you doing good and wish ya the best. I tried sending ya a IM to say 'Hi' when i seen ya on here but you either don't accept my IM's or any IM's.

His post was from 2005. He's not been on since April.

Hehe Don't I feel silly!!! LOL I never figured to check year date because post I would think would be more new considering the few responses the story has had. TY

No problem. I do that all the time. I just thought I'd be helpful.

I once was forced by my parents to sit behind the back seat in a Volkswagon bug , while my three older sisters sat in the back seat, and my parents rode in comparative ease in the front seats. It would have been okay, except for the scratchy material that lined that part of the car (I don't even know what to call it). The 70's may have been dangerous, but the 60's were scary.

I think more children should be tossed from cars. Teach them some respect.

LOL!!! Coldethyl!!!


ROFLMAO!!

Coldethyl, you always have such a refreshing view of things!!!

That's messed up. Why was he un-restrained, and why weren't the doors locked. I don't understand how she didn't even know her child had fell out. Doesn't seem like she really cares about her child.

As this news article is over a year old, I am putting it to rest