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Woman arrested after allegedly leaving 2 kids in hot car in Walmart parking lot in Naugatuck
NAUGATUCK, Conn. (WTNH) — A woman was arrested Wednesday for allegedly leaving her two children in a hot car, according to police.
Naugatuck police officers were called to the Walmart parking lot on New Haven Road after an 8-year-old and a 1-month-old were found in a locked hot car. According to police, witnesses told them the car's alarm was going off because the 8-year-old was trying to get out of the vehicle.
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Police said that when officers arrived, the children were covered in sweat and crying. They were taken to a local hospital.
Officers arrested the children's mother, 30-year-old Talita Sonia De Carvalho Silva, when she walked out of the store and toward the car. She was charged with two counts of risk of injury to a minor, two counts of reckless endangerment and two counts of leaving a child under 12 unsupervised in a vehicle.
Silva was released on a $10,000 non-surety bond and will appear in Waterbury Superior Court at 9 a.m. on July 9.
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