Overview
- An off-duty officer alerted Aberdeen Police after finding a 4-year-old, a 2-year-old and a 1-year-old alone in an unlocked, running vehicle in a Walmart parking lot.
- Police arrested 32-year-old Marium Khan Ghauri of Abingdon on child-neglect charges after she told officers she left the children because they were asleep.
- The children were turned over to their father and suffered no reported injuries following the incident.
- Authorities said the vehicle was occupied for roughly 40 minutes while outside temperatures approached 100 degrees, a condition that can quickly raise the risk of heat injury for young children.
- Aberdeen Police issued a public safety reminder that leaving young children unattended in vehicles can endanger them and may result in criminal prosecution, and the case will proceed through local charging and custody processes.