Police last week arrested a 36-year-old New Canaan woman and charged her with leaving a child unsupervised in a motor vehicle.
At about 3:38 p.m. on June 4 (a Wednesday), officers were dispatched to the New England Academy of Dance lot on Main Street on a report of children left alone inside a vehicle, police said.
Through an investigation, officers determined that the children had been left unattended for several minutes inside an open vehicle in the lot, according to a police report.
The woman was charged with the misdemeanor offense. Under state law, “[a]ny parent, guardian or person having custody or control, or providing supervision, of any child under the age of twelve years who knowingly leaves such child unsupervised in a place of public accommodation or a motor vehicle for a period of time that presents a substantial risk to the child’s health or safety, shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.”
She was released after promising to appear June 17 in state superior Court.