I almost went to JAIL!....

So, I was on Facebook a few days ago and saw this video of a man yelling that this woman left her baby in the car asleep. I think it was at Walmart where she was parked and left her son in the car asleep. Now before you judge her let me tell you my story........ Here we go.... So my daughter decided she wanted to be a dancer and wanted to start taking ballet lessons. She turned out to be really good, I must say, and the first year in ballet she got the opportunity to be a GingerBread Girl in her first Nutcracker. Now the rules for dropping them off and picking them up are that the parent must come in and sign them in and out. Which, don't get me wrong it's understandable. Now if you read my last post you'll know how many children I have and the baby was one year old at this time. We went in and watched The Nutcracker for the second time, the boys were misbehaving, Nikolas didn't want to sit still, and the baby would not stop crying at this point. Finally, Graison fell asleep and I could get Nikolas to sit still by giving him my IPAD to watch YouTube ( Thank Goodness for that babysitter..lol). So we went to the car to ride around and find a closer park so I wouldn't have far to walk with all of the kids. I rode around the block several times and asked one of the security guards that was working for parking and all and then finally I just parked in the yellow to run in and get my daughter. I left the boys in the car, the baby was asleep and Nikolas was on the iPad. I locked the doors and I ran in - once I got in the girls still hadn't come down to be released so I stood waiting for 5 minutes and then I told the lady I needed to go back outside to check my car and to my surprise when I got outside MY SON OPENED THE CAR DOOR FOR A STRANGER AND THE POLICE WERE ON THE WAY. I'm not gonna lie, my first thought was to ring Nikolas neck!!! He was looking at me like he knew he was in trouble and I did yell and say why would you open the door - have you lost your mind??? Then they all looking at me like don't yell at him trying to take him from me and the other lady had my baby and would not give him to me..... so long story short the police did get there and they put me in cuffs! The Ballet Moms came out and I started screaming their names from the police car and some stopped. One Mom took my baby and from the lady and held him for me until things got worked out. I am so THANKFUL FOR HER!!! I can't thank her enough. One Ballet Mom that I did talk too on a regular and our kids played together walk pass the entire situation like she never knew me..... needless to say, she's been trying to have lunch every sense for two years now and lady enjoy your life cause you're done on this end!! Anyway, I'm in the back of this police car my daughter has walked out scared and started crying hysterically. The lady over the ballet was trying to explain that I was only gone for two minutes and that I had to come in to sign her out. The officer that saw me riding around came over and was telling the officers that she wasn’t gone for long for any more than five minutes and that she was trying to find a park with the children. BUT, it was two officers one black who was yelling to the top of his lungs like she is wrong left them kids in the car - one white cop came over and shoved me into the back seat of the police car, he would not let me talk told me to shut up and all treated me like a criminal I tell ya! So after all of this happened, The Lord sent a ram in the bush! The Sherif showed up talked with everyone around including the security officer that saw me trying to park, checked out the kids and the car, and talk with the ladies over the ballet. He pulled me to the side took the cuffs off of me and told me to go to his car. I set in his front seat, tired, anxious, scared, and hysterical. He explained everything everyone said asked me for my ID and told me it was going to be okay and he’s going to let me go. He said I have to write you a ticket because the complaining officer wasn’t going to let it go and that if he didn’t call me on Monday I had nothing to worry about. I THANK GOD FOR THIS OFFICER! This could have gone so many ways. Truth is parenting is hard! No matter how many children you have, you’re not always prepared and you do the best you can with the cards you are dealt with. Now I don’t know the law when it comes to leaving your children in the car but every situation is not the same. I do know that PARENTS don’t need you to stress them out more than they are already stressed due to them leaving a child in the car. It’s not right on my end or her end but try to understand the situation since you’re deciding to mind somebody else business.