{"id":172042,"date":"2026-04-21T18:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172042\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:02:07","slug":"mom-arrested-for-leaving-1-year-old-in-a-hot-car-outside-a-casino-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172042\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom arrested for leaving 1-year-old in a hot car outside a casino, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman was arrested and briefly jailed after leaving her 14-month-old child in a hot car outside Parx Casino, according to Bensalem, Pennsylvania, police.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to the parking lot of the casino on Street Road, where they found the child inside an unattended car that was shut off with the windows closed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The child appeared to be sleeping but was visibly sweating, as outside temperatures were in the mid-80s. Officers were able to gain entry to the vehicle and safely remove the child,&#8221; police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Police later took the boy to a hospital, where he was evaluated before being released to his father.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators and casino security determined that the boy&#8217;s mother, 37-year-old Leola Dualuqua of Willingboro, New Jersey, had left her son unattended starting at around 6:30 p.m. She was later found inside the building gambling.<\/p>\n<p>Dualuqua was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Court records show Dualuqua posted 10% of her $25,000 bail and was released from the Bucks County Correctional Facility ahead of future court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was arrested and briefly jailed after leaving her 14-month-old child in a hot car outside Parx&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[191,197,28,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-172042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-bensalem","9":"tag-bucks-county","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172042","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=172042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}