Last weekend in the Chicago suburb of Crestwood Illinois, Treffly Coyne took her children to the Wal-Mart to donate some money that they had collected to the Salvation army. "It was the kids idea...they had taken it upon themselves to gather up all the loose change they could find and give it to charity. I was really proud of them" Coyne boasted.
As a result of that charitable endeavor she was arrested.
“My 2-year-old had fallen fast asleep,” Coyne said.“It was sleeting, and I said,‘I’m not going to risk carrying my kid and falling.’”
Pretty sound thinking if you ask me.
So she turned off the engine, put her hazard lights on, locked the car, activated the alarm and walked 30 feet from the car to get a few snapshots of the girls, Coyne said.
“I was always within ear- and eyeshot of the car,” Coyne said.“It wasn't even a five-minute affair.”
But that was enough time to get the mother of three in serious trouble with the law.
Coyne said when she turned around, a uniformed police officer was standing by her car and told Coyne,“You’
She was not only arrested for child endangerment but like any reasonable person she was none too happy being arrested.(Resisting arrest has to be the most prevalent charge in America, right?)
So according to the police officer she was endangering her daughter. How did the agents of the state rectify this?
Officers then went to her car and started the engine with the baby inside —“exposing my child to carbon monoxide poisoning,” Coyne said. "they left her in that idling car for more than an hour while I sat humiliated in the back of a Crestwood Police squad car. She assumed the other girls were in police custody.
She assumed wrong. The great protector of children had …
“…abandoned my other daughters at the Wal-Mart,” said Janecyk, they were eventually found seated on a bench in the Wal-Mart.“I asked them why they didn’t ask for help, but they said the police scared them.” The Crestwood Police have not publicly commented on the case, nor has the Mayor of Crestwood, Robert Stranczek. One must wonder what they would say if they said anything at all. Those idiots are lucky to be able to hide behind a lawyers advice of 'no comment.'
Is it possible we live in a police state, but generally have not realized it yet?
Coynes trial, in fact the trial of mothers everywhere, begins on Thursday March 13th in Bridgeview Illinois at 1:30pm
