A Phoenix woman has been arrested for child abuse after her one-month-old baby fell off the roof of her car after she drove away forgetting she had put the child there.
Only realising that her baby wasn’t in or on the car when she returned home, 19-year-old Catalina Clouser drove back to 45th Avenue and Chollas and was greeted by police who had recovered her child.
Alerted to the near-tragedy after a passer-by found the baby on the road still strapped to its car-seat, police at the scene got Clouser to admit what she had done and was then arrested for driving while intoxicated and one count of child abuse.
Catalina Clauser, had only an hour earlier witnessed her boyfriend’s arrest on DUI charges when she allegedly got high on marijuana and placed her baby on the roof of her Ford Focus.
Upset over her boyfriend’s arrest, Phoenix police officer James Holmes said the mother drove to a friend’s house with her baby where she smoked one or two bowls of marijuana.
