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March 5th, 2011, 11:10 AM
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A local woman has added endangering the welfare of a minor to the list of offenses she has been cited with following an incident at the Faulkner County probation office.
According to police reports from the Conway Police Department, Sarah Harris, 31, of Conway, made contact with her probation officer earlier this week and was advised she was going to be arrested for the outstanding warrants she had incurred for charges of writing hot checks.
Probation officers notified police but gave Harris time to make arrangements for her 2-year-old daughter to be picked up by family members while she was being processed. Harris did not mention at the time that she also had a 6-month-old baby that she would also need to make arrangements for.
When an officer arrived at the probation office to transport Harris to the Faulkner County Detention Center, she indicated that she had called her sister to come get her daughter and that she was outside.
As the officer was escorting the woman outside to meet her sister, Harris appeared shocked and told the officer that her sister had left her 6-month-old baby in the car and had just driven off.
The officer and Harris quickly approached the vehicle and Harris opened the door to retrieve her child. A baby carrier was removed from the truck and the officer allowed Harris to pick up her baby. Harris then told the officer the baby was fine, and she did not want to make an issue out of the incident with her sister. When the officer asked Harris to provide him with her sister's name and contact information so he could speak with her regarding leaving the child unattended, she would not answer his questions.
After he repeatedly asked her for this information, she confessed that she had been the one to leave the baby unattended. Officers were notified to pick up the suspect around noon. The baby was removed from the car with the officer present at approximately 12:30 p.m. It is not known how much longer the baby had been unattended prior to the officer responding to the call.
The suspect's brothers arrived on the scene and were given custody of both children, but the incident was reported to the national child abuse hot line.
LaTresha Woodruff, public information officer with the Conway Police Department, confirmed that any time the welfare of a child is endangered, department protocol is to notify the proper authorities at the hot line.
"When something like this happens, it is our responsibility to notify the child abuse hot line," she said. "That does not mean family members of the children can't take custody."
Woodruff also confirmed that Harris was not able to see the vehicle from her location inside the probation office.
Harris was transported to the Faulkner County Detention Center where she was cited for endangering the welfare of a child, failure to appear and writing bad checks.
[...]http://www.katv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14191759
A local woman has added endangering the welfare of a minor to the list of offenses she has been cited with following an incident at the Faulkner County probation office.
According to police reports from the Conway Police Department, Sarah Harris, 31, of Conway, made contact with her probation officer earlier this week and was advised she was going to be arrested for the outstanding warrants she had incurred for charges of writing hot checks.
Probation officers notified police but gave Harris time to make arrangements for her 2-year-old daughter to be picked up by family members while she was being processed. Harris did not mention at the time that she also had a 6-month-old baby that she would also need to make arrangements for.
When an officer arrived at the probation office to transport Harris to the Faulkner County Detention Center, she indicated that she had called her sister to come get her daughter and that she was outside.
As the officer was escorting the woman outside to meet her sister, Harris appeared shocked and told the officer that her sister had left her 6-month-old baby in the car and had just driven off.
The officer and Harris quickly approached the vehicle and Harris opened the door to retrieve her child. A baby carrier was removed from the truck and the officer allowed Harris to pick up her baby. Harris then told the officer the baby was fine, and she did not want to make an issue out of the incident with her sister. When the officer asked Harris to provide him with her sister's name and contact information so he could speak with her regarding leaving the child unattended, she would not answer his questions.
After he repeatedly asked her for this information, she confessed that she had been the one to leave the baby unattended. Officers were notified to pick up the suspect around noon. The baby was removed from the car with the officer present at approximately 12:30 p.m. It is not known how much longer the baby had been unattended prior to the officer responding to the call.
The suspect's brothers arrived on the scene and were given custody of both children, but the incident was reported to the national child abuse hot line.
LaTresha Woodruff, public information officer with the Conway Police Department, confirmed that any time the welfare of a child is endangered, department protocol is to notify the proper authorities at the hot line.
"When something like this happens, it is our responsibility to notify the child abuse hot line," she said. "That does not mean family members of the children can't take custody."
Woodruff also confirmed that Harris was not able to see the vehicle from her location inside the probation office.
Harris was transported to the Faulkner County Detention Center where she was cited for endangering the welfare of a child, failure to appear and writing bad checks.
[...]http://www.katv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14191759