Mom Left 4-Year-Old Alone In Car While She Went On Job Interview: Cops

JOLIET, IL — A woman left her 4-year-old daughter alone in a parked car for at least about 40 minutes while she went on a job interview, police said.

The police reportedly found the little girl alone in a Pontiac Grand Prix parked in the lot of the Larkin Professional Centre about 9:45 a.m. Wednesday. She was watching a video on a cell phone, police said.

Officers asked the girl where her mother was, police said, and she pointed to the two office buildings on Larkin north of Black Road. The officers also reportedly tried finding the mother’s number in the cell phone the child had been holding and calling her, but were unsuccessful in making contact.

The officers spent nearly 40 minutes searching the two buildings for the child’s mother but couldn’t locate her, police said. They were reportedly getting ready to take the girl to the police department for her own safety when the mom, 27-year-old Tammy Travis, emerged.

Travis, a resident of Gary, Indiana, explained that she had been in the building for a job interview, according to police, who said, “She wasn’t too concerned about the daughter being in the car alone.”

Travis was arrested on a charge of endangering the health or life of a child. She was released on her own recognizance.

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