A RECKLESS mum was seen smirking in her mugshot after leaving her baby inside a hot car while allegedly going off to have drinks with her husband at a nightclub.

Samantha Grace Vaughan, 26, also shouted racial slurs after being confronted by officers inside a nightclub in Texas on Sunday night, it is claimed.

2 Vaughan was charged with abandoning or endangering a child with intent to return, resisting arrest and making a terrorist threat against a public servant Credit: The Mega Agency

Copperas Cove Police received a call about the one-year-old girl that was left unattended in the back seat of Vaughan's car.

The car's engine was still running, despite outside temperatures reaching 25-27C - making the inside of the car reach alarming highs of 50C.

An officer went into the club and found Vaughan, who claimed she had driven to the Trackside nightclub to pick up her husband and went inside to use the toilet.

Vaughan allegedly then told police she sat down with her husband for two shots, according a police affidavit, reported AOL.

Officers reportedly said the 26-year-old smelled strongly of alcohol and arrested her on the spot.

Results from a breathalyser test indicated that her blood-alcohol level was 0.148, almost double the legal limit, it is reported.

She allegedly refused to be handcuffed and screamed at the police in a racist rant, saying "You will not take my child and place her with a f***ing n****r".

As police told her she was under arrest, Vaughan pulled away, dropped to the ground and continued to "thrash her body around."

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Vaughan was then placed in the police car where she allegedly smashed her forehead into a steel bar, leaving a small cut on her forehead that can be seen in her grinning mugshot.

The mugshot released by the police showed Vaughan, with tattoos on her right temple, neck and arms.

She was charged with abandoning or endangering a child with intent to return, resisting arrest and making a terrorist threat against a public servant, according to the affidavit.

2 Vaughan allegedly left her baby outside Trackside nightclub on Sunday Credit: Google