Off-Duty Police Captain Faces Backlash After Leaving Toddler in Hot Van

A police captain in Nebraska and her partner were cited with child abuse after allegedly leaving their 2-year-old daughter in their locked, hot minivan while they went fishing.

Another couple who were fishing at the same lake as Mayde McGuire and her partner, Mary Tobiassen, found the girl in the vehicle.

Police said that McGuire, 54, and Tobiassen, 49, were fishing at Pawnee Lake in Lincoln, Nebraska, on the afternoon of Sunday, August 23, when the other couple walked by their black minivan in the parking lot.