LI Mom Drove Drunk With 8-Year-Old Son In Car: Police

MASSAPEQUA PARK, NY — Authorities have arrested a Massapequa Park mother who they say was driving drunk while her 8-year-old son was in the car.

It happened Wednesday afternoon in Wantagh.

Valerie Decker, 46, was parking a 2017 Dodge Ram on Wantagh Avenue around 3:25 p.m., when Nassau County police said she hit a parked 2019 Infinity with a 50-year-old woman inside.

Police responding to the incident said they saw Decker leave the scene and head south on Wantagh Avenue. Decker was pulled over and arrested without incident.

Her son was handed over to a family member, according to police.

Decker has been charged with driving while intoxicated, endangering the welfare of a child, and a number of other related charges. She also violated Leandra's Law because her young child was a passenger in her car, police said.

Leandra's Law, which is also known as the Child Passenger Protection Act, is a state law making it an automatic felony on the first offense to drive drunk with a person age 15 or younger inside the vehicle.

It's named after 11-year-old Leandra Rosado, who was killed on the Henry Hudson Parkway on October 11, 2009, when she was the passenger in a car accident involving drunk driving.

Decker is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday.