SOUTH SALT LAKE — A West Valley mother is facing a criminal charge accusing her of leaving her infant son in a car for nearly two hours with the windows mostly rolled up and the vehicle not parked in the shade.
Leinara Ivanelle Tioa, 29, was charged Thursday in 3rd District Court with aggravated child abuse, a first-degree felony.
On June 4, police were called to the area of 3000 S. State on a report of an infant crying inside a locked vehicle. A passerby noticed the boy, who was later determined to be 10 months old, “crying and kicking within a rear-facing car seat” and called 911 when she couldn’t get the doors open, according to charging documents…