South Carolina Father Arrested After Leaving His 6-Year-Old Daughter Alone Overnight in a Target Line to Hold His Place for Pokemon Cards
CHARLESTON, South Carolina — Charleston police arrested a 35-year-old man on November 6, accusing him of leaving his 6-year-old daughter sleeping alone outside a Target store in the middle of the night so that he could hold his place in line to buy a new Pokemon card release while he went home.
Police said officers responded at about 2:30 a.m. on November 6 to a report of an unattended child outside the Target store in Charleston's West Ashley neighborhood, where numerous customers had gathered overnight for the release of a new Pokemon Trading Card Game set. Witnesses told officers that sometime after 1 a.m., the girl's father, John-Michael Dooley, gave his daughter a pillow and a blanket, left her asleep in line, and left.
Dooley, of Johns Island, returned to the store, was identified by witnesses, and told detectives he had gone home and left his daughter outside to maintain his place in line because he feared missing the chance to buy the cards, police said. He was charged with unlawful conduct toward a child and booked into the Al Cannon Detention Center, with bond set at $40,000. Under South Carolina law the charge is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
The girl was unharmed and was placed into emergency protective custody with the South Carolina Department of Social Services, police said. The cards on sale that day were the new Mega Evolution - Delta Reign expansion.
(Source: Charleston Police Department)
Source: Charleston Police Department
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