Two drunk moms left four young kids, including a baby, inside a car with a big bag of weed while they went drinking in a bar, according to cops.
The unidentified moms were busted after alarmed onlookers saw a small child running around a parking lot in Glendale, Arizona, around 11 p.m. on March 8 with no parents around, according to police who recently released video of the interaction.
“We found her going up and down here,” a woman who flagged down cops said of the girl. “She took us to the car.”
Cops then found three crying kids — including a 7-month-old baby and another also in a car seat — inside the vehicle.
“Inside the car, officers found a bag of marijuana in the glove box — within easy reach of the kids,” police said, with the video showing one of the officers finding it and asking: “Seriously?”
The responding officers spent at least 45 minutes searching for the kids’ parents before two women walked up and said they were the children’s mothers, the department said.
“Both smelled like alcohol” and “had slurred speech,” police said.
The video shows an officer telling the women: “Hey, your kids have been here for hours.”
“Hours?” one of the moms replies, before claiming they only went to Salt Tacos y Tequila Bar to “go to the bathroom.”
“You went to a bar?” the incredulous-sounding cop asks — with one of the women then admitting: “We did get a drink.”
The second mother, stumbling over her words, tries to tell the officer that they’d only stopped in the bar for 15 minutes.
“That’s a lie,” the officer told her. “We’ve been standing with these kids for over 45 minutes.”
The first mother becomes overwhelmed with emotion and tries to explain that she did not have her phone and she “really only thought it was 10 minutes” that they’d been gone.
“Please don’t take my kids away from me,” she pleaded. “Like seriously they’re the only things I’ve got. I know this is super, super bad, I promise … My heart’s about to explode,” she tells the officer.
Both women were arrested and charged with child abuse with criminal negligence.
The children were taken to the hospital by Glendale Fire for a check-up.
Police have not identified the women, who had their prosecution suspended while they participate in a parenting skills felony diversion program, according to 12 News.
