Ashley Agerenza, 19, has been charged with child abuse, resisting arrest and battery of a police officer in St Petersburg, Florida.

Ashley tried to take her seven-month-old baby into Extreme Tan and Smoothies with her, only to find that infants weren’t welcome. So she did the unthinkable leaving the baby locked in the car by herself with the engine running.

Police said she first took the child inside the salon, but was told she could not leave the baby while she had a tanning session.

She then took the child back out to her car, strapped her into the car seat and turned on the engine, before returning to the salon.

A witness called police after seeing the baby abandoned. The responding officer found the baby had almost pushed herself out of the seat and had been sick all over herself.

When confronted, Agerenza attacked the officer and was shot twice with a Taser before being arrested.