A 28-year-old father in Ohio allegedly left his 1-year-old child alone in his car as he went grocery shopping at a nearby Aldi.
Dazhawn Richardson was charged with one count of child endangerment following the incident, according to court records. According to an incident report, officers from the Solon Police Department responded to the parking lot of an Aldi grocery store in the 6200 block of Som Center Road around 3 p.m. on Friday, November 14. The caller had asked for a welfare check on a baby they claimed had been left unsupervised in a vehicle.
When police arrived, they found the black Mercedes automobile on the north side of the building. Approaching officers reported hearing a baby wailing and quickly located the infant, who was in a car seat in the back of the vehicle. Police used “a lock-out tool” to get into the car and called emergency medical personnel from the local fire station to “check for any medical issues with the child.”…