Kayla M. Hamilton, 26, an employee at Ascension All Saints Hospital in Racine, has been charged with felony child neglect after police say she left her nonverbal autistic daughter in a car while at work.
According to the criminal complaint, police responded to the hospital parking lot on Wednesday night for a welfare check after security staff found a child in a vehicle. The child was strapped to a car seat; however, the car seat was not secured to the vehicle, and the child was moving around with the seat attached to her.
When officers arrived at the parking lot and unbuckled the girl from the seat, she ran away from the vehicle. Once officers caught up to her, they said they placed her in a squad car for warmth and safety. Temperatures at the time were around 45-50 degrees…