A woman is facing charges for leaving her child in a hot car for nearly a half hour.
The story below is courtesy KTLO:
An Ozark County woman has been arrested for leaving her daughter in a car for 26 minutes that was shut off and the temperature inside reached 110 degrees while she waited for a pizza and played a slot machine inside a convenience store. Thirty-nine-year-old Corinna K. Walker of Gainesville is facing a felony count of first degree endangering the welfare of a minor for the incident which happened in April.
According to the probable cause affidavit from the Ozark County Sheriff’s Office, Walker arrived at the store and left her daughter buckled in her car seat in the back seat of the vehicle and went inside to pick up a pizza she had ordered. The car was turned off and the windows were rolled up.
Walker said she paid for the pizza then went to the ATM and withdrew money to try the slot machine she and one of the employees were discussing.
She told investigators she didn’t sit at the slot machine because she couldn’t see her daughter, so she stood close to the machine while she played and periodically would look out the window at her and said she was not crying or fussing.
Video footage shows Walker was inside the store 26 minutes. The temperature at that time was 76 degrees, but a car temperature calculator showed the temperature inside the vehicle had risen to 110 degrees during the time the child was left inside the closed up car.
Walker has been released from the Ozark County Jail on an Own Recognizance Bond,. Her first court appearance is set for August 27.
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