Crime & Safety
Woman Tries To Take Child Out Of Classroom, Gets Arrested
Police said she was neither a relative nor a guardian of the child.
YORKTOWN, NY — A Croton-on-Hudson woman was arrested after police said she tried to take a child, for whom she was not a relative or guardian, out of a classroom. Yorktown Police said Lesla K. Gagliotti, 49, of Young Avenue in Croton-on-Hudson, entered a classroom Jan. 22 around 10:49 a.m. at Yorktown Presbyterian Church and tried to take a child out of the arms of a teacher.
Gagliotti, police said, was not a relative of the child nor did she have custody.
She was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a minor, a misdemeanor.
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Gagliotti was arraigned and sent to the Westchester County Jail in lieu of $1,500 bail.
She is due back in Yorktown Town Court Feb. 6.
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