Salt Lake City prosecutors have charged a mother with reckless endangerment, a class A misdemeanor, after she allegedly left her 21-month-old baby in a running car for a half-hour.
On Monday someone called police saying a baby had been left alone in a car and it looked like the baby was sweating and crying, according to charges filed Thursday in 3rd District Court.
Salt Lake firefighters got the baby out of the vehicle. When the mother returned, she told police she had been talking to a counselor, court documents say. The baby had been asleep and the mother said she did not want to wake the child up to take her inside, charges state.
Officers explained to the 45-year-old woman why it was unsafe to leave a baby in a car, but the woman continued to make excuses, according to court documents. The baby was examined and determined to be fine, charges state.