A Florida mother was arrested last week after she let her 2-year-old son take her Glock 43 to day care in his lunchbox.
Shanae Davis, 39, reportedly told police that she put the gun in her son’s lunchbox because she didn’t have a purse and didn’t want it out in the open, WPTV reported. Then, she said, she forgot about it and dropped the boy off at Jackson’s Daycare Center in West Palm Beach.
A teacher found the gun and called police. The daycare also called Davis, and she was arrested when she arrived. She was chargd with allowing a minor to obtain a firearm and child neglect.
Davis told police she usually leaves the gun in her glovebox, but she had been taking it inside her apartment because of several recent break-ins. That morning, she said, she put the weapon in the lunchbox to get it back out to the car and forgot.
Davis was released from jail on her own recognizance on Friday.
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[Featured image: Shanae Davis/Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office]
