Authorities confirmed that a grandmother was arrested for driving around the parking lot of a grocery store with a 3-year-old child sitting on the roof of the car.

Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to the Publix store on Tuesday where they arrested a 54-year-old woman after she was driving around with her three-year-old granddaughter on the roof of her car.

The grandmother was released from jail 15 hours later.And you though driving on your mobile was bad or without a seatbelt, heaven forbid…

The woman said Thursday she would never let anything hurt her granddaughter. She says she was driving at "snail-speed" and holding the child’s leg. Well that’s a relief!

Authorities say the woman told police she was giving the child some air and letting her have fun. Driving to the park or the localfairground was obviously not an option.

She faces charges of child abuse. The child is back with her mother.

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