An Alaska woman was taken into custody after she allegedly left her toddler unattended in a cold car while she was on a “romantic rendezvous.”
38-year-old Lillian Johnson is accused of leaving her 20-month-old child “abandoned in a car” outside a hotel and bar in Healy, Alaska for about 35 minutes on March 18.
“The child was crying, the vehicle was off, with a window partly opened with outside temperatures at 6 degrees Fahrenheit,” the Alaska Department of Public Safety State Troopers division said.
Police and EMS personnel responded to the scene and “removed the child from the vehicle.” The baby was treated for “hypothermia” at the scene and taken to “the EMS/Fire Department for additional treatment.”
Johnson was later arrested after she “exited the hotel after EMS had already left with her child.”
Security footage showed her inside the hotel from 8:18 p.m. to 8:53 p.m. “before returning to check on the child.”
Police said Johnson “left her child in the car to have a romantic rendezvous with a guest at the hotel.”
