HOPKINSVILLE, KY (CHRISTIAN COUNTY NOW) – A 73-year-old woman was arrested after leaving a child in a parked vehicle for an extended period of time while shopping at Goodwill on Fort Campbell Boulevard.
Officers with the Hopkinsville Police Department were called to the store for a welfare check on Oct. 4 around 3:40 p.m. They found a vehicle running with the doors unlocked, the keys in the ignition, and a child in a car seat, according to a police report.
HPD was able to locate the woman, who was the child’s babysitter, inside the store actively shopping. Video footage revealed she had been in the store for nearly half an hour.
The father was contacted, and Hopkinsville EMS released the child after medically clearing her. The babysitter was arrested and charged with abandonment of a minor.
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