A 36-year-old mother in Ohio is accused of risking the lives of her young children, allegedly letting her daughters, ages 8 and 3, wander around outside their hotel barely dressed as they dealt with single-digit winter temperatures.
Laura Beitler was taken into custody Thursday and charged with endangering the welfare of a child, authorities announced.
Police responded to a 911 call at the Extended Stay America hotel in the 5600 block of Emerald Court regarding a child in distress at about 12:25 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 29, the Mentor Police Department said in a news release. The caller was a “concerned resident” who told the dispatcher they found a little girl wandering around the hotel parking lot alone and had brought the child inside to safety…