[imagesource: Oviedo Police Department]

Karma was doing her thing on May 26.

A mother had parked her car in a Dillard’s parking lot at Oviedo Mall on the fateful Friday, leaving her two children inside, while she dilly-dallied in the mall, allegedly shoplifting with a fellow thief.

As soon as the Florida woman, identified as 24-year-old Alicia Moore, left the store, she noticed her car swallowed in flames, and realising that her kids were in danger, dropped her stolen goods to run over to them.

According to an arrest report filed by the Oviedo Police Department, per AP News, she faces charges of aggravated child neglect and arson after her car caught on fire while she was allegedly shoplifting.

The report states that security watched Moore and an unknown man shoplifting in Dillard’s for about an hour.

Moore was charged with neglect for allegedly allowing her children, whose names and ages were redacted, who could not care for themselves alone inside the vehicle at the time of near disaster:

Police said they don’t know what caused the fire but said it’s unlikely the children would have been injured if Moore “was not being neglectful.” Moore was charged with arson because the fire occurred while she was allegedly committing a felony, the arrest report said.

Thankfully a few kind-hearted bystanders at the mall jumped to the rescue as soon as they saw the car in flames, helping the children inside trying to escape the fire.  The children were taken to Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, where one child suffered first-degree burns “to her face and ears,” the arrest report said.

Image: Oviedo Police Department

[source:apnews]