"Homeless Mother Gets Job Interview But Didn't Have Childcare"

kilgore9012 Published 03/28/2014

Shanesha Taylor, a woman from Scottsdale, Arizona, is homeless. So when she got asked to come in for a job interview last Thursday, she must have been excited by the prospect. But when youâre homeless, there isnât always an easy way to take an hour off from watching your kids to be at an interview. Thatâs how Taylor, 35, wound up losing her children to Child Protective Service â and losing out on the potential job.

Taylor was charged with two felony counts of child abuse for leaving her six-month-old and two-year-old in a car with the windows cracked last Thursday for at least 45 minutes as she sat in an interview for a potential job. She told officers that she was homeless, so she couldnât leave her children in the house, and she had no one else to watch them.

âShe was upset,â Sargent Mark Clark, Public Information Officer for Scottsdale Police,