Father leaves 2 yr. old in HOT CAR WHILE VISITING BROTHEL...

[Ireneparalegal]

OK THE LIST OF %#&#^(*! JUST SEEMS TO BE GETTING LONG AND LONGER...THIS TIME A SUPPOSED FATHER LEFT HIS CHILD IN A HOT CAR WHILE HE WAS INSIDE A BROTHEL...CAN WE JUST SHOOT THESE WORTHLESS PARENTS?????

PATRICK, Nev. — An Oregon rugby player remains in jail Tuesday after being arrested on charges he left his 2-year-old daughter in a vehicle in the parking lot of a Nevada brothel on a 95-degree day.

Lucien Hoffman, of Bend, Ore., is being held in the Storey County Detention Center in lieu of $40,000 bail on charges of child neglect.

Police arrested Hoffman early Sunday night at the World Famous Mustang Ranch brothel in Sparks, Nev., after a security guard found the child crying inside the car, according to Storey County Sheriff's Det./Sgt. Kenneth Quirk.

Hoffman, a wing for Bend Rugby who goes by the nicknames Luke and "Torpedo," had been attending a pool party and barbecue at the brothel, a co-sponsor of a Labor Day weekend rugby tournament in Reno organized by the Reno Zephyrs Rugby Club.

A handful of Bend Rugby team members had driven to the brothel party in a camper van, according to the club's president, Matt Burke. Neither coaching staff nor team captains attended the event, he said.

"We won the tournament, so I think half of the people in the club got in their cars and started driving home and a few went to the after-tournament function to receive the trophy," said Burke, who did not attend the Nevada tournament.

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Dad Arrested for Leaving Tot in Car Quirk said that had the child been noticed by the brothel security guard, Hoffman's vehicle wouldn't have been allowed in. When security guards did hear her crying and couldn't locate her parents, they contacted the sheriff's office and took the child inside the brothel.

"It was 95 degrees out at that time of day, and you have to figure another 30 degrees on top of that inside a vehicle even with the windows down," Quirk said.

According to the Reno Rugby Club's Web site, the brothel pool party was an after-event for its first "Biggest Little Rugby Tournament in the World," a two-day competition drawing 14 rugby teams from around the West Coast.

Hoffman attended the tournament with his girlfriend, a woman who is not the mother of the 2-year-old toddler. Hoffman shares joint custody of the child with her biological mother.

"It was probably not a good decision to take the child [to Nevada] in the first place, but basically it was sort of like a vacation for them," Burke said.

After Hoffman's arrest, the toddler was treated for dehydration and released to the Nevada Division of Child and Family Services. She was returned to her mother in Bend, Ore.

Burke called Hoffman a good father who made a bad decision.

"We know Luke to be a good father," he said. "He's not a neglectful person or an irresponsible parent. It's unfortunate that he made the decision that he did to put here in the car, but I'm sure the decision wasn't arrived at in a neglectful manner or that he was intentionally being neglectful."

[catlover79]

SICK, SICK, SICK!!! I hope they throw the book at this loser.

[crystals]

Wow. That's just nuts. What's wrong with some people? Seems some people in life shouldn't be parents. And, what was the father doing visiting a brothel anyway?

[Mikado]

At least the prosecutor in THIS town knew enough to charge the idiot, unlike the last one...and no child died this time.
I wonder where the childs mother is.....something tells me, shes going to be suing her ex-husband for SOLE custody after this! ( and this is one time that id say go for it! )

[OH Nuts!]

The guy is clearly playing with a 47 card deck, to say the least.

[*ClassicPinUp*]

We just had a woman leave her 2 year old in the car (she died) in FL as well.

What is going on with these people! Leaving babies in cars. "Forgetting" babies in cars. These are HUMAN BEINGS not car keys or groceries!

[Dynomite]

What the hell is with these fools? You don't leave your children alone in a hot or a cold car for ANY REASON! They need to make this negligent action a Class 1 Felony, punishable by mandatory jail time, a referral to the Dept. of Children and Family Services, etc.-you know what I mean. It no longer matters how well these parents mean, there's NO EXCUSE AT ALL for ever leaving your children alone in a hot or a cold car. Making this action a Class 1 Felony with a minimum of 18 months in jail and possibly a $3000 fine might send a message to these parents that neglecting or endangering your children in this manner will no longer in any way be tolerated or accepted by law, they will be held fully accountable for their actions and no excuse in the world would ever in any way, get them off the hook. These negliegent parents need to be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Enough is enough!

[coffield3]

[Mikado]

Originally Posted by Dynomite

What the hell is with these fools? You don't leave your children alone in a hot or a cold car for ANY REASON! They need to make this negligent action a Class 1 Felony, punishable by mandatory jail time, a referral to the Dept. of Children and Family Services, etc.-you know what I mean. It no longer matters how well these parents mean, there's NO EXCUSE AT ALL for ever leaving your children alone in a hot or a cold car. Making this action a Class 1 Felony with a minimum of 18 months in jail and possibly a $3000 fine might send a message to these parents that neglecting or endangering your children in this manner will no longer in any way be tolerated or accepted by law, they will be held fully accountable for their actions and no excuse in the world would ever in any way, get them off the hook. These negliegent parents need to be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Enough is enough!

Works for me!!!

[Ireneparalegal]

Originally Posted by Dynomite

What the hell is with these fools? You don't leave your children alone in a hot or a cold car for ANY REASON! They need to make this negligent action a Class 1 Felony, punishable by mandatory jail time, a referral to the Dept. of Children and Family Services, etc.-you know what I mean. It no longer matters how well these parents mean, there's NO EXCUSE AT ALL for ever leaving your children alone in a hot or a cold car. Making this action a Class 1 Felony with a minimum of 18 months in jail and possibly a $3000 fine might send a message to these parents that neglecting or endangering your children in this manner will no longer in any way be tolerated or accepted by law, they will be held fully accountable for their actions and no excuse in the world would ever in any way, get them off the hook. These negliegent parents need to be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Enough is enough!

I second the motion. No one should get a slap on the wrist for what is clearly a crime to leave your child alone. Whether it is in your home or in a car, it should NEVER HAPPEN. We know there are predators and whackos out there who are just waiting for this opportunity to kidnap a child and do horrible things to them. Those are the same people who when they do leave their child alone or neglected, when something does happen to them (by a stranger) they are the first to scream they want "justice".