Mother Left Children Unattended In Car: Trumbull PD

TRUMBULL, CT — A Bridgeport woman was charged after she left her two young children alone in the car at the Hawley Lane Mall April 16, according to police.

A passerby noticed the two young children and flagged down a passing Trumbull officer around 5:40 p.m., said Lt. Brian Weir, police spokesman. The two children who were 2 and 4-years-old were playing on a cellphone.

Mother Yonneisha Reed, 29, returned and said she had left the children alone for five minutes, Weird said. The car door was left unlocked.

Reed was charged with two counts of leaving a child under 12 unattended in a motor vehicle and was released on a promise to appear.