Crime & Safety

Dad Faces Child Endangerment Charges For Leaving 3 Kids in Cold Car

A Newton father is facing charges for allegedly leaving his three children in a car without the heat on.

Newton police have not released the identity of a Newton father who has been summonsed on charges of child endangerment after police say he left his three children inside a cold car while he was in court, reports NECN.

It is reported that he left a five-year-old boy, three-year-old girl and a nine-month-old girl in his Honda for more than an hour, without the heat on, in a lot on Washington Street in Newton. The temperature was 23 degrees.

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