A Mississippi mother was arrested and charged with child neglect after police found that her 2-year-old son was only wearing a diaper inside a Walmart while the weather outside was below freezing.
The Byram Police Department did not respond to USA TODAY’s request for comment, but several outlets reported that police arrested the woman a Walmart at around 10:30 a.m. on January 17 after an employee took a video of the child in the store with only a diaper.
The temperature that day was 20 degrees Fahrenheit and there were colder wind chills.
The employee who filmed the video, Felicia Darling, told WJTV , that she was later fired for posting the video.
Shoppers dress the child
Darling confronted the mother in the store.
“He’s just an innocent soul. He didn’t ask to be here, so I took action, and I started recording her. Minutes into the video, she threw… she threw cold food on the baby, and he was sad and just looked down. It seemed like in his eyes he was just looking for help. He was crying out for help,” Darling told WJTV.