Toronto - A mother of four appeared in court on Wednesday on charges she abandoned a child in freezing car to go on a shoplifting spree and then did not tell police he was there when she was caught with stolen goods.The seven-year-old boy spent Monday night bundled in his mother's ageing Pontiac Grand Prix alone in a suburban Toroto parking lot.His mother Had been apprehended early in the evening for allegedly stealing clothes from a large department store.“she never once mentioned that there was a child in the car," Said police officer Peter Morgan. - Reuters