‘Hooters Mom’ Ashly Duchene
“Hooters Mom” Ashly Duchene, 22, has been chardged with negligent homicide in the death of her 17-month-old son Ryan Gallagher.
Yesterday Ashly, for supposedly unknown reasons, left Ryan to die in his car seat while she worked her shift at Hooters in Phoenix, Arizona.
Duchene, who usually dropped the boy off at a day-care center on her way to work, did not do so on Tuesday and instead left him in his car set in the back seat of her Honda Civic which was parked about 20 feet from Hooters patio seating area..
The high temperature in Phoenix on Tuesday was 89 degrees and the temperature inside Duchene’s car likely topped 110 degrees as Ryan sat in that car seat, waiting for “mommy” to come get him. When she did finally come to the car, young Ryan was gone. He died just a few feet from where his “mommy” spent the day, working her seven-hour shift, doing what comes natural for her apparently.
Killing a child with negligence or stupidity is bad enough, but even more troubling about this “Hooters Mom” is that she allegedly had told family members recently that she didn’t want to care for her son and wanted her freedom.
Duchene was arrested and booked into Maricopa County jail on a felony count of negligent homicide in what can only be called one of the biggest whoopsies of all time.
References:
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