An Alabama social worker who left a three-year-old in a roasting car for five hours has been charged in connection with his death – and is already out of jail on bail.
Kela Stanford, 54, was taken into custody on Friday after a toddler in her care, KeTorrius Starkes Jr., was found unresponsive in a vehicle parked outside her Birmingham home on July 22.
KeTorrius, nicknamed KJ, was in his fastened car seat in the vehicle, which was off and had the windows rolled up. He was declared dead 30 minutes after he was found.
The temperature inside the car likely exceeded 150 degrees, according to his family.
Before his tragic death, Stanford, a Department of Human Resources contract worker, had taken him to a supervised visit with his father, KeTorrius Starkes Sr.
She was supposed to take KJ, who was in temporary foster care, to daycare after the visit – but the little boy never made it.
Instead, Stanford reportedly stopped at a grocery store and tobacco shop before returning to her house, according to a lawyer hired by Starkes Sr.
Stanford was charged with leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle in a manner that creates an unreasonable risk of injury or harm, Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr announced.
Do the same thing to her that she did to that little boy.
That bitch should be locked in a hot car in the sun and left there. How I the hell did she ever get a job like this? Had to be a dei hire
8:21…………………..you are absolutely right…………………another affirmative action hire. She deserves the punishment equal to what she put that poor little helpless boy through. My heart aches for him and his family.
did she get her nails done, too?