$200 fine for leaving baby in car: Is this fair?

Photo / Chris Callinan, Bay of Plenty Times

A man who left his 18-month-old boy unattended in a car while he went into a Wellington strip club in the early hours of the morning has been fined $200.

Feilding man Wayne Ricardo Schwamm, 42, pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving a child under 14 without reasonable supervision in Wellington District Court today.

He left the child in the locked car with the windows wound up for about 40 minutes before a passerby noticed and called police about 3am.

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