\u2600\ufe0f14-month-old found alone, sweating in locked car at casino parking lot\u2600\ufe0fTemps in the low 80s as child sat unattended for over 2 hours\u2600\ufe0fNJ special education teacher charged with child endangerment<\/p>\n
BENSALEM, Pa.<\/a> \u2014 A Burlington County special education teacher was charged after leaving her toddler in a car while she was inside a casino.<\/p>\n Security at Parx Casino on Street Road in Bensalem noticed the 14-month-old seated in a car seat in the back seat of a locked car with the windows rolled up parked in the casino’s parking lot just before 9 p.m. on April 14, according to Bensalem police. Security footage recorded Leola Dualuqua leaving the car around 6:30 p.m. and entering the casino.<\/p>\n ALSO READ: Where is the World Cup transit money Trump gave New Jersey?<\/a><\/p>\n Exteroir of Parx Casino in Bensalem<\/p>\n Exteroir of Parx Casino in Bensalem (VIsitPA.com)Child overheated as temperatures climbed into the 80s<\/p>\n Officers said the child was covered in sweat and “very hot” with a soiled diaper. A lockout kit was used to open the door and take the child via ambulance to a hospital. Temperatures surpassed 80 degrees early Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n Police found Dualuqua in the casino and brought her back to her car. She was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and leaving an unattended child in a motor vehicle<\/p>\n Dualuqua’s Facebook <\/a>and Linkedin<\/a> pages show she is a special needs teacher in the Willingboro public schools.<\/p>\n PA Living News did not know Monday whether she had an attorney who could speak on her behalf.<\/p>\n Report a correction<\/a> \ud83d\udc48 | \ud83d\udc49 Contact our newsroom<\/a><\/p>\n Biggest layoffs in New Jersey this year <\/p>\n New Jersey started 2026 with more than 4,700 notable layoffs announced, revealed by employers in the first three months.<\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Erin Vogt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2600\ufe0f14-month-old found alone, sweating in locked car at casino parking lot\u2600\ufe0fTemps in the low 80s as child sat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,139],"class_list":["post-171199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}