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No, Joseph… you got it all wrong. I’ll tell you what happened.
The “rescuer” was a person who decided that he needed some instant fame. He noticed that the back door of the car was unlocked and hatched a plan. He ran into the store, found the mother with the baby, grabbed the baby and ran out of the store. He then put the baby in the car and locked the door.
Then, he started a commotion, calling the police and saying “there’s a baby in a locked car,” smashed the window and had the mother thrown in jail.
The Wolf