Kids Rescued From Hot Cars In Two Separate Incidents

BAYTOWN, TX — It's not officially summer, but it's certainly hot and it's the first week that areas of Texas, and the Houston area, are seeing near triple digit temperatures.

And it's also a time where police are seeing incidents of young children being left alone,locked in a hot car.

Two of those incidents happened on Wednsday with the first in Baytown, where police arrested 24-year-old Gene Curry.

Police said Curry left his infant in a locked car for nearly 20 minutes, while he shopped in a nearby Kroger store.

According to a KPRC report, the baby was covered by a blanket and locked in a car where the temperature reached 112 degrees inside.

Curry was arrested and charged with child endangerment.

The infant was released to Curry’s mother.

Later that same day in Katy, Fort Bend County Precinct 3 deputy constables arrested Ayesha Farooq when they found her child alone in hot car in a store parking lot.

Deputies said Farooq left her 8-month-old child inside her unlocked car with the car off and windows up, while she as shopping at a Hobby Lobby store at Fry Road and the Grand Parkway.

A good Samaritan who noticed the child contacted a staff member to find the mother and called police, KTRK reported.

The baby was removed from the car drenched in sweat and was later released to the father.

Farooq told deputies she'd left the child with a neighbor, but deputies alleged that was false.

She was arrested and charged with child abandonment.

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