CONWAY, SC (WBTW) – A Conway mother was arrested over the weekend after police said she left an infant child locked in her car alone while she shopped.
According to a Conway Police Department incident report, officers were called to the Conway Walmart on Church Street Saturday around 10:30 a.m. after a witness noticed an infant strapped in a car seat alone inside a car with the windows rolled up.
When officers arrived, the child was heard crying with “her eyes red and swollen, her cheeks were flushed and she had mucus running down her face from her nose,” the report stated.
An announcement was then made inside the story for the driver of the car to come outside. 35-year-old Jennifer Leigh Perry came to the car 20-minutes later, police said.
Police asked if it was her vehicle, she said yes. According to the report, an officer asked her if she forgot someone inside it and she stated that she did not. As she walked towards the drivers side of the vehicle, the officer pointed to her crying child in the car seat. Perry then stated that she did not know that her daughter was in the car.
Perry went on to say she was in the store shopping for 20 minutes and her husband must have put their daughter in the vehicle. The report stated the husband was at home with their other children.
EMS arrived and said the child appeared to be fine.
The Department of Social Services was called and the child was later released into the custody of the husband, the report said.
He stated the couple walked outside together with the baby and he put the baby in the car.
Perry was charged with unlawful neglect of a child. She was released on $5,000 bond the next day.
