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New Jersey Woman Charged with Child Endangerment

By Lependorf & Silverstein

A woman has been arrested for leaving her 1-year-old child in her car when she went into a Walmart store in Cedar Knolls, New Jersey. According to a news report in The Star-Ledger, the incident took place in Hanover Township. The woman left her child asleep in her vehicle while she went into the store to buy a bandage for her child?s arm. Police saw the sleeping infant inside the vehicle with the doors unlocked and the engine running. The article does not specify how long the infant may have been left alone. New Jersey Criminal Code 2C:24-4 states: "Any person having a legal duty for the care of a child or who has assumed responsibility for the care of a child who engages in sexual conduct which would impair or debauch the morals of the child, or who causes the child harm that would make the child an abused or neglected child," is guilty of a crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by New Jersey Criminal Defense Blog on February 15, 2011 (boomark / email).