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Posted March 13th, 2008 by minortopics | Permalink

Charges against Treffly Coyne to be dropped

In case you’re not up to speed, Treffly Coyne is a woman from Tinley Park, Illinois who was arrested for briefly leaving her young child in her car alone in a Wal-Mart parking lot. The case caused quite a stir on message boards, with some claiming what Coyne did was reckless and she deserved to be punished, while most seemed to think it was an outrage and an overreaction by police. Well, the majority seems to have been vindicated, as prosecutors are indicating that they are going to submit a motion to drop all charges:

Treffly Coyne, 36, was set to go on trial Thursday on misdemeanor charges of child endangerment and obstructing a peace officer. But the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office found the evidence did not support the charges, sources said.

Prosecutors will drop the case at a Thursday court appearance in Bridgeview, sources said.

It was Dec. 8 when Coyne drove to Wal-Mart in suburban Crestwood so that her children could donate $8.29 in coins to the Salvation Army.

When she arrived, she parked in a loading zone. Her two-year-old daughter Phoebe was asleep. Coyne locked the car and activated the alarm, then took her two other daughters and another child to the Salvation Army donation kettle no more than ten yards away.

A community service officer intercepted Coyne on her way back to the car. Crestwood police then arrested her.


Information from: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/83994...



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  1. Katy DeKoter
    Mar 24th, 2008
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    She should drop the lawsuit. She broke the law. She took a risk with her baby (evidence that it was a risk is that she locked the car and turned on the alarm) and the police did the right thing. I only wish more police would get this important message across. People in many midwest states do a lot worse and police won’t even respond to the endangered child….some don’t even have laws against it. It’s embarrassing to be from a state that has no such law. Nor does it have laws against leaving children home alone that draw the line at a certain age.

  2. Family Rights
    Mar 24th, 2008
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    You are crazy… the child was never in danger and NO LAW WAS BROKEN… that’s why the prosecutor dropped the case. Keep the government out of my bedroom and our nursery. The child wasn’t hurt, the mother was right there, the cops went overboard. You ‘zero tolerance lunatics’ scare me more than the hypothetical child molestors, kidnappers and carjackers you fear are around every corner. Lets arrest a mom in front of her kids who did nothing illegal or even wrong. What’s next… you let your kid swim in the ocean? You should be jailed… it would only take a minute for a shark to come along and eat them.

    The police broke up a family and arrested an innocent woman for no good reason. I think it’s a horrible precedent to accept. Not to mention the police abandoned the womans other children at the scene of the police crime.

    What is even more insane is that people want to accept out of control crime has no remedy so we must create laws that PUNISH PEOPLE FOR NOT ADEQUATELY PROTECTING THEIR FAMILIES WHERE THE POLICE HAVE ALREADY FAILED.

    It’s gotten out of contril in America. I say the police went too far, they had a right to investigate, and then they would have found out the woman never broke any laws.

    Instead they rushed just to make an arrest and victimized an innocent mother and her children in the process.

    Anyone who supports that wrongdoing by the police is obviously an unfit parent.

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