Crime & Safety

Woman Charged With Endangering the Life of a Child

Her children were taken in to protective custody.

Asia J. Womack, 27, 4432 Clayton, Hillside, was arrested and charged with endangering the life of a child after she reportedly left one of her children in a car while she shopped on Sunday.

Police were dispatched to Mariano's, 678 N. York Road, at 2:43 p.m. Nov. 10 after a caller said a child had been left in a car. Police found the vehicle, and a child inside was crying, according to the police report. From the vehicle registration, police obtained the suspect's name, then had her paged inside the grocery store. Womack met the officers outside and told them she had been in the store "for less than an hour."

She was arrested and her children were taken into protective custody, police said. They also learned she had been arrested two months prior for the same offense, according to the police report.

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Womack was charged with one count of endangering the life of a child for the Nov. 10 incident.

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