Woman Who Left Daughter In Running Car That Was Stolen Speaks
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DALLAS (CBS11) - Watching car thieves drive off with her daughter, a Dallas mom says she panicked.
"I'm running and screaming after the car, like 'My baby! My baby! My baby!' she said.
One day later, she said the scare has them both clinging to each other.
"She wants to be right here, like my left hip now. She doesn't want me out of her sight. And me personally I get butterflies," she said.
The mother, who asked her name not be released, told CBS11 she was on her way to church Sunday when she stopped at 7-11.
She parked at the door and left the car running with her nearly two-year-old daughter in her car seat.
"I wasn't in the store no more than probably two minutes at the most. It really wasn't that long," she said.
It was long enough, though, for two men to jump in the car and take off. The mother immediately noticed it and her daughter were gone.
"I knew she was in the backseat asleep, but I knew when she woke up and she notices, 'Okay, where's my momma?', she's gonna panic," she said.
A witness spotted someone leave the girl at a nearby park twenty minutes later and called police.
Her mother is grateful to have her back, but she wants the men responsible caught and punished.
"I don't want them to lock y'all in a cell. I want them to bury y'all underneath the jail. Because you don't do that. You don't steal something with a whole human inside - a baby at that," she said.
Now, she's happy to keep her daughter close.
"She's not gonna leave my sight. We go everywhere together. If we go to the moon together, we will. But she's not gonna leave my sight," she said.
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