An 18-year-old Utah mother locked her crying 2-year-old child in a sweltering car so she could watch the “Smurfs” movie at a theater undisturbed, according to local police. Tripura Merriex pulled her ...

A Florida teenager is accused of leaving her 2-year-old daughter locked up in a hot car — with a heat index of 107 degrees reported at the time — while the young woman watched the new "Smurfs" movie ...

Police say the teen allegedly "acted as though the whole situation wasn't a big deal" when authorities arrived at the scene, while the woman's husband said she has a "history of very un-rational ...