Fall River, MA – On Tuesday afternoon, an employee at a sailing shop glanced out the window and noticed a guy parked outside, the trunk of his ’98 Grand Am open, with two small kids in the trunk and “he’s changing their clothes.” The witness told police he thought it was “kind of odd” that the children were naked and being changed in the trunk of a vehicle on such a wet, drizzly, day. A short time later the man, 35-year-old Michael Monahan, walked into the store - sans kiddos. When the witness asked him where the kids were, Monahan told him that he had left the kids in the car. The witness walked outside to take a peek inside the car windows, but didn’t see the kids. After the witness repeatedly questioned Monahan about the kids whereabouts, Monahan produced a set of keys, opened up the trunk, and voilá! There they were! One of the tots, age 3, was asleep and the other one, age 6, was crying. At that point, the witness told Monahan that he was calling the police, and after a short but heated discussion, Monahan removed the boys from the trunk, placed them in the car, and fled the scene. Monahan, who was tracked down by his license plate number, later told police that the boys liked to play in the trunk. He was arrested, charged with two counts of reckless endangerment and two counts of assault – he was released on bail later that same day and ordered to stay away from his children. The boys were handed over to their mother.
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Tags: Assault and Battery, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Crime, Fall River, kids in trunk, Massachusetts, Michael Monahan, Reckless Endangerment
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