× Woman accused of leaving child in car while she drank at bar on Mother’s Day

OKLAHOMA CITY — Mother’s Day did not end the way one Oklahoma City woman probably had in mind.

Hayley Dawn Hampton, 28, was arrested early Monday morning on complaints of child neglect, according to KOCO.

At about 12:20 a.m. Monday, police responded to an Oklahoma City sports bar in reference to a report of a woman who left her 4-year-old child in her car while she was having drinks.

When officers arrived, they found the child sleeping in the back seat of an unattended Nissan Xterra.

According to a police report obtained by KOCO, Hampton said she was at the bar to pick up her boyfriend, who was drinking with friends after work. They invited her to stay for a drink to “celebrate Mother’s Day.”

According to the report, Hampton said her boyfriend offered to go outside and watch the child and that it was his fault that the child was left alone. The boyfriend is not the child’s father and does not have custody.

Hampton said she was in the bar for “five minutes or so.” Her boyfriend said she was there for about half an hour and the bartender told police she arrived a little after 11:20 p.m., according to the report.

Hampton was placed in the Oklahoma City Jail.

The child was placed in the custody of one of Hampton’s family members.