“Ms. Turner advised that the children, ages two and thirteen months, had been asleep when she left them in the vehicle,” the affidavit says. “Ms. Turner advised that she had locked the vehicle and left the vehicle running with the air conditioner on so the children would not get too hot. Ms. Turner advised that she was just going into the Clark County Library for a few minutes, and thought that her children would be fine for that short period of time.”
Witnesses at the scene told police that they saw the older child was playing with a cigarette lighter in the vehicle and the younger child was crying, the affidavit says.
“Due to the children’s age, and Ms. Turner leaving them unsupervised and unattended in a running motor vehicle, officers arrested Ms. Turner and charged her with two counts of endangering children,” the affidavit says. “Ms. Turner was transported to police headquarters for paperwork, then processed at the Clark County Jail.”
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