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Shopping Mom Leaves Kids Unattended in Running Van

The following information was supplied by the Fairlawn Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

A Copley mother will be appearing in court on a charge of leaving her four children inside a running vehicle in a parking lot while she did some “quick shopping,” according to .

A police lieutenant reported that he was flagged down at 1:12 p.m. Dec. 20 in the west parking lot regarding children left unattended in a 2008 Chrysler Town & Country minivan.

The Fairlawn officer located the vehicle, running with its keys in the ignition. Its occupants were siblings: three boys ages 11, 8 and 1, and a girl, 4.

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Their mother, 30, returned to the vehicle at 1:24 p.m. and told police she “had entered Macy’s for some quick shopping and decided to leave the children in the vehicle running because it was cold outside.”

The woman was issued a summons to appear in court on a charge of leaving children unattended in a running motor vehicle, a fourth-degree misdemeanor.

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