{"id":7761,"date":"2011-06-20T16:22:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T20:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7761"},"modified":"2011-06-20T14:38:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:38:01","slug":"judge-gives-hard-luck-mom-free-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7761","title":{"rendered":"Judge Gives Hard-Luck Mom Free Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Broward County judge gave a penniless mother a priceless gift this week: freedom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Angel Smith<\/strong>, 41, had been arrested for leaving her two children in a hot car for two hours while she gave blood to earn money to feed them.<\/p>\n<p>She was paid around $30 for giving blood, but when she left the center, cops were waiting.<\/p>\n<p>A security guard at the blood donation clinic saw the children &#8211; ages 4 and 7 &#8211; alone in the car and called police, who arrested <strong>Smith<\/strong> on child neglect charges. The children were unharmed and are in the custody of the Department of Children and Families.<\/p>\n<p>But<strong> Judge John Hurley <\/strong>said that life had given the desperate mother enough hard times and that she didn&#8217;t deserve to serve hard time. <strong>Smith <\/strong>was living out of a hotel and had just been laid off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Broward County judge gave a penniless mother a priceless gift this week: freedom. Angel Smith, 41, had been arrested for leaving her two children in a hot car for two hours while she gave blood to earn money to feed them. She was paid around $30 for giving blood, but when she left the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}