BENSALEM, PA — Bensalem Police arrested a New Jersey woman Tuesday after she allegedly left her 14-month-old child unattended in a locked vehicle for more than two hours while gambling at a casino.
Police responded to the parking lot at Parx Casino at 8:53 p.m. April 14 regarding an unattended child inside a vehicle.
Officers found the toddler in the backseat of a locked vehicle that was not running with the windows closed.
The child appeared to be sleeping but was visibly sweating, as outside temperatures were in the mid-80s.
Officers gained entry to the vehicle and safely removed the child.
Bensalem EMS transported the child to St. Mary Medical Center, where he was evaluated and later released to his father.
Casino security assisted officers during the investigation.
Police determined Leola Dualuqua, 37, of Willingboro, New Jersey, had left the child unattended in the vehicle at approximately 6:28 p.m. and did not return.
She was later located inside the casino actively gambling.
Dualuqua was taken into custody and charged with endangering the welfare of a child and leaving a child in an unattended motor vehicle.
She was arraigned by District Justice Corryn Kronnagel and remanded to the Bucks County Correctional Facility on 10% of $25,000 bail.
