Dad arrested for leaving sleeping 3-year-old son in car outside strip club; accused of assaulting police officers who arrested him (Indianapolis, Indiana)

Dad THOMAS YATES has been arrested for "allegedly" leaving his 3-year-old son locked in a car while Daddy patronized a strip joint. Did Daddy have custody, weekend visitation, what? Notice that this ding dong "allegedly" assaulted the police officers who rescued this child after they tried to arrest him. So we apparently have a temperamental, volatile father here. Interesting.

Why wasn't this child at home with his mother? Wait, is there a mother? Oops, we have yet another story where mom has been erased. Notice that this child is now in the custody of CPS. Why?

Hat tip to V.

http://www.fox59.com/news/wxin-thomas-yates-father-accused-of-leaving-sleeping-child-in-car-at-strip-club-20110714,0,7770841.story

Father accused of leaving sleeping child in car at strip club
A man was arrested Monday after police said he left his three-year-old son locked inside of a car while at a strip club.

By Heather MacWilliams

Fox59

5:00 p.m. EDT, July 14, 2011

Indianapolis— A man was arrested Monday after police said he left his three-year-old son locked inside of a car while at a strip club.

It happened around 1 a.m. Monday at the Indy Dancers Gentleman's Show Club on West Washington Street. Police received an anonymous call that a toddler was locked inside of a green Jeep Cherokee sleeping soundly in the back seat.

"The doors were locked and they were unable to get the child to wake up so they called for the fire department. They got there really quick, disengaged the locks," said IMPD Spokesperson Linda Jackson.

"Just so you have an understanding of how long we were actually out there, they got underneath the hood and disabled the car alarm. We were probably in the parking lot a good 10 minutes at that point in time before the man who was later identified as the child's father came out to speak to police."

The father, 33-year-old Thomas Yates of Greenwood, told police he came to the club simply to give his friend a ride home. Surveillance video showed a much different story, though.

"From that they were able to see that he'd been in there for about 30 minutes," Jackson said.

When officers began to arrest Yates, they said he put up a violent fight, striking and clawing at the officers who were forced to deploy their taser.

"In an effort to subdue him the taser was deployed; however, he jerked away from the taser and one of the officers was tased by his own weapon," Jackson said.

Yates was arrested and his child turned over to protective services. A sad situation, police said that could have been much worse if it wasn't for a concerned individual who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

"We definitely appreciate an anonymous caller or not the information was good the officers were able to get there very quickly and taken out of the car very quickly."

Yates is charged with neglect of a dependent, resisting law enforcement and battery with injury on an officer.