Woman arrested after leaving children in car
A Brooklyn woman was arrested at the Roosevelt Field Mall after she left three children — one of them 9 months old — unattended in her car for at least 25 minutes, Nassau County police said today.
The woman, Nicola Daley, 37, was apparently shopping in the mall Saturday evening while the three girls — two were her children and the third, the daughter of a friend — were left alone in her car, police said. The car was not running at the time.
According to police, a mall security guard spotted the children — the 9-month-old, a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old — unattended in the car in the parking lot near Macy’s, and called the police. The guard kept an eye on the vehicle and told police the driver was gone for at least 25 minutes. At about 9:30 p.m., the driver returned to the car with a shopping bag.
Daley was arrested on three counts of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor that carries a punishment of up to one year in prison. The suspect’s two children were taken by their 22-year-old sister and the 7-year-old, who was not related to the suspect, was released into the custody of her mother.
Daley is scheduled to be arraigned today at the First District Court in Hempstead.
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