Woman Charged After Baby Found Alone In Car At Tolland Store

TOLLAND, CT — State police have served an arrest warrant on a 31-year-old Hartford woman accused of leaving an infant in a car for more than a half-hour while she shopped at the Tolland Big Y supermarket on a summer afternoon.

The woman has been charged with leaving a child younger than 12 unsupervised, according to the warrant.

The case dates back to Aug. 20. At 1:40 p.m. that day, state police were called to the Big Y at Fieldstone Commons after the child was discovered "flailing" in the car by a woman in the parking lot who was returning a cart. The car, an Acura TLX, was near the bottle return entrance with the windows up and running, the warrant indicates.

The child was described by state police as 3 months old and was crying in the car, according to the warrant.

The baby's mother said she thought she would be quicker and did not want to wake the child up, according to the warrant.

Surveillance images show the woman in the store for 38 minutes.