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Parents of baby in car arrested They left her outside while they did drugs, police say By Jill Briskey A 9-month-old baby left alone in a vehicle in the frigid cold while her parents did drugs in a nearby Medford apartment Friday is in good condition, police report. Her parents, Tiffanie, 22, and Garron Burns, 21, of 3623 Antelope Road, White City, have been charged with first-degree mistreatment, second-degree child neglect and child endangerment. They were taken into custody following the incident and charged Saturday. Both were lodged in jail on $13,000 bail. According to Medford police Sgt. Dave Ryder, the baby�s body temperature was 95 degrees when she was taken from a vehicle parked on Spring Street Friday evening in 36-degree weather. "She was in good condition when she was examined," Ryder said. "Certainly she was upset initially, but after the nurses dawdled over her, that changed." The baby was first left alone in the car about 5:45 a.m. Friday for about 20 minutes, when the temperature was about 32 degrees, Ryder said. "To leave a baby unattended is bad enough," Ryder commented. "Then when to stack on top of that the extreme cold, that�s a real bad thing." The Burnses allegedly left their child alone in the vehicle again for about an hour that night when a report came into the police station about the situation around 8 p.m. She was clothed at the time, and her lower body was covered with a quilt, Ryder said. "I don�t know if it will ever be determined," he said of the length of the baby�s stay in the car. "I know the parents claim one thing and the medical personnel say another." Ryder said the parents admitted to using marijuana and methamphetamines indoors while the child was kept outside. "They didn�t want to expose the child to that type of behavior," he said. "They thought that it was the lesser of the two evils." The baby will most likely be placed in foster care while the parents are in jail, Ryder speculated. "She�s just a cute, gorgeous little child," he said of the baby. "(This type of neglect) is not common but it�s not unusual." Prior to the baby�s experience, Ryder said the girl had been well-cared for. Her clothes at the time of the incident were both clean and of good quality, he added. No drugs were seized in the incident, Ryder said, and no charges of drug possession have been filed. Mail Tribune Home | Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Dow Jones & Co., Inc. | Privacy | Contact Us Copyright � 2000 Mail Tribune, Inc.