OAKLAND PARK, Fla. -- An Oakland Park attorney is fighting the Broward Sheriff's Office's claims that he endangered his child by leaving him alone in his car.

Kenneth Trent said what happened to him Sunday is an outrage and that he was targeted because he is a lawyer.

"The statute doesn't say that in no circumstances shall a child be left alone in a car, even for a moment," Trent said. "I mean, anybody who's a parent knows that there are situations in which it's just, you know, way impractical to have to take the child out of the car."

Trent said his son, Julian Trent, was in his parked Mercedes for about two minutes while he went into My Computer People.

"I called the guy in advance and told him, 'Have my computer ready for me. I'm going to pick it up,'" Trent said.

Trent said he did everything to make sure his son was OK while he stepped out, including locking the doors and setting the temperature at 65 degrees.

"In my opinion, the child was perfectly safe," Trent said.

But according to the arrest report, Trent's Mercedes was parked in an alleyway where his son was out of sight, and the store was located on Dixie Highway -- a roadway with heavy traffic -- placing the child in harm's way if he were to get out of the vehicle.

Trent said he loves his son and takes very good care of him, but believes leaving him alone in the car for that short amount of time was hardly risky.

"Really, honestly, it wasn't more than, like, two minutes," My Computer People manager Darren Frankel said. "It all happened so suddenly."

If it all happened so suddenly, then how did a BSO deputy arrive so quickly?

Call it bad timing. The deputy was nearby responding to a silent alarm that was triggered at the business next door.

Trent, meanwhile, is charged with child neglect without great harm -- a third-degree felony.

Trent has hired an attorney of his own to dispute the charges.