Mississippi mom charged after son seen in Walmart only wearing diaper in freezing weather
1Police arrested a woman after a viral video showed her bringing her two-year-old son into Walmart wearing only a diaper in Byram, Mississippi.
Byram Police Department said they responded to the Walmart around 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 17. The temperature outside on this day was 20 degrees with even colder wind chills.
Felicia Darling, who was an employee at the business, recorded the incident and confronted the mother in the store.
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“He’s just an innocent soul. He didn’t ask to be here, so I took action, and I started recording her. Minutes into the video, she threw… she threw cold food on the baby, and he was sad and just looked down. It seemed like in his eyes he was just looking for help. He was crying out for help,” said Darling, who said she was later fired for posting the video.
The video showed a customer in a riding shopping cart purchasing an outfit for the boy and dressing him while his mother, who was identified as 26-year-old Kambria Darby, flipped through her phone.