A 28-year-old father in Ohio allegedly left his 1-year-old baby alone in his car while he went shopping for groceries at a local Aldi.
Dazhawn Richardson was charged with one count of child endangerment over the incident, court records show. According to an incident report, officers with the Solon Police Department responded to the parking lot of a Aldi grocery store in the 6200 block of Som Center Road at about 3 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 14. The caller had requested a welfare check on a baby they said had been left unattended in a vehicle.
Upon arriving at the location, police located the black Mercedes sedan in question on the north side of the building. Approaching officers said they could hear a baby crying and soon spotted the child, who was in a car seat in the rear of the vehicle. Police used “a lock-out tool” to gain entry to the car and contacted emergency medical personnel with the local fire department to “check for any medical issues with the child.”…