The State - News from July 10, 1985

An Oakland couple were under arrest after allegedly leaving a 4-year-old girl tied up in a car in near 100-degree heat, police said. Neighbors spotted the girl, Carolyn Lee, in the back seat of a parked sedan and called police. Her wrists and ankles were bound with electrical cord, police said, adding that the sobbing child told officers, “My mommy doesn’t love me. Do you want to take me home?” Officer Bob Gillies said the temperature in the car, which had one window open only eight inches, had to be more than 100 degrees. The mother, Shirley Dyer, her boyfriend, Darron Singleton, both 22, arrived with their 1 1/2-year-old son about 10 minutes after the girl was freed. Dyer told police she had left her daughter tied up while they went to a nearby service station because the girl was always running away. She also said she did not want her daughter anymore, Gillies said. The adults were booked on suspicion of willful cruelty to a child.