NJ Mom Left Baby Locked In Hot Car To Go Gambling, Authorities Say

BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, NJ — A 37-year-old Willingboro woman was taken into custody after she left her child in a hot car while she gambled at Parx Casino, Bensalem Police said.

Leola Dualuqua was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and leaving a child in an unattended motor vehicle.

On April 14 at around 6:30 p.m., officers responded to the parking lot for a report of an unattended child in a vehicle.

The boy was in the backseat of the locked car that was not running.

Temperatures were in the mid-80s, authorities said, and the windows were closed. The child appeared to be sleeping, but was visibly sweating.

Officers were able to get into the car and remove the child.

Bensalem EMS then took the boy to St. Mary Medical Center, where he was checked and released to his father.

Dualuqua was arraigned and remanded to the Bucks County Correctional Facility on a $2,500 bail.

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