NJ teacher charged after baby discovered alone outside casino

☀️14-month-old found alone, sweating in locked car at casino parking lot

☀️Temps in the low 80s as child sat unattended for over 2 hours

☀️NJ special education teacher charged with child endangerment

BENSALEM, Pa. — A Burlington County special education teacher was charged after leaving her toddler in a car while she was inside a casino.

Security at Parx Casino on Street Road in Bensalem noticed the 14-month-old seated in a car seat in the back seat of a locked car with the windows rolled up parked in the casino's parking lot just before 9 p.m. on April 14, according to Bensalem police. Security footage recorded Leola Dualuqua leaving the car around 6:30 p.m. and entering the casino.

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Child overheated as temperatures climbed into the 80s

Officers said the child was covered in sweat and "very hot" with a soiled diaper. A lockout kit was used to open the door and take the child via ambulance to a hospital. Temperatures surpassed 80 degrees early Tuesday evening.

Police found Dualuqua in the casino and brought her back to her car. She was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and leaving an unattended child in a motor vehicle

Dualuqua's Facebook and Linkedin pages show she is a special needs teacher in the Willingboro public schools.

PA Living News did not know Monday whether she had an attorney who could speak on her behalf.

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