A Kansas store manager was captured in cellphone video as she desperately tried to break the window of a car to save a toddler sweltering in the heat.
"It was just very, very emotional for all of us that were around," Sarah Oropeza said.
On Saturday, the manager at Famous Footwear was ringing someone up when one of her workers ran inside screaming for help.
"The windows were totally rolled up, all the doors were locked and she was covered in sweat," she told KCTV. "When I looked in the window, she pulled her hair back and sweat was just drip, drip, drip. I was just getting so mad that it wouldn't break, and I was just praying, like, 'break the window, she's gonna die,'" Oropeza said.
The video only shows seconds of the 2 to 3 minutes Oropeza says it took to crack the glass.
Every whack at the window felt like an eternity for the mom of two trying to save the girl's life.
"She was crying, and she was like, she was drenched in sweat. Like, her shoes were wet, and she was so drenched in sweat, and I just started crying," Oropeza said.
Tears only turned to anger, she says, as the couple caring for girl came inside the shoe store looking for the girl. They claimed the girl was their neice.
Oropeza says they seemed unconcerned.
"No emotion at all, whatsoever. They sat there, and the only question they had for police is if insurance was going to pay to cover the window that we broke. That's the only question that they asked the cops," Oropeza said.
Police ticketed the couple for child endangerment.
