SAN ANTONIO – A woman was arrested after San Antonio police said she knowingly left her two young children alone in the heat.
Ashantee Verchelle Boone, 28, was charged with two counts of abandoning/endangering a child with intent to return, records with the Bexar County jail show.
According to a preliminary report from SAPD, officers responded on Sunday afternoon to a report of two children left outside in the 7300 block of North Loop 1604 East.
Police were able to get a hold of the children’s mother, Boone, who stated she left the kids alone while she went to pick someone up from a nearby gas station, the report stated.
Police said she knew the children, ages 2 and 6, were unattended.