BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, NJ \u2014 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.<\/p>\n
Leola Dualuqua was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and leaving a child in an unattended motor vehicle.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The boy was in the backseat of the locked car that was not running.<\/p>\n
Temperatures were in the mid-80s, authorities said, and the windows were closed. The child appeared to be sleeping, but was visibly sweating.<\/p>\n
Officers were able to get into the car and remove the child.<\/p>\n
Bensalem EMS then took the boy to St. Mary Medical Center, where he was checked and released to his father.<\/p>\n
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