2-year-old Found Playing in Traffic; Mother Blames Toddler

A Louisville, Ky. woman was arrested Tuesday after her 2-year-old daughter wandered off into the cold and walked across a highway. A passerby noticed the toddler in the street and called police -- but here's the kicker: the mother, 20-year-old Pages C. Brents, is taking no responsible. Instead, she blames the child for getting out. What?!?

The officers attempted to find the mother of the child, but they had no means of identifying her. Police say it wasn't until "much later" that the mother, 20-year-old Pages C. Brents, called police to file a missing person's report on the child. When officers arrived at her home, they detected a strong smell of marijuana. "Officers discerned that the child wandered off while the mother was smoking marijuana and was intoxicated," the arrest report states. At some point, police say the mother opened her apartment door to air out the marijuana smell, and that's when the child walked out. Police say Brents confessed to the crime, but continued to blame the child for walking out.

Pages was charged wanton endangerment and disorderly conduct.


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