A Tauranga woman has been charged after leaving a baby in a car last week while his mother was in the TAB.
The baby was left unattended in a vehicle on Gravatt Road in Papamoa Beach on January 31, police said in a statement.
The alarm was raised when the little boy's older sister asked if her mother was in a bar opposite the TAB in Papamoa.
The bar manager, James Cullen, told Stuff they checked the bar. Then while taking the girl across the road to look in the Papamoa TAB, he noticed her baby brother, who could not have been more than five months old, crying inside the hot car, he said.
A 21-year-old woman has been charged with neglect of a child and will appear in court next week. A date is yet to be confirmed.
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