One Black daycare owner went to the grocery store in Texas, but she walked out with five felony charges. The reason why is absolutely heartbreaking.
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Domonique L. Wilson operates a Houston daycare called My Little Angels out of her home on Stone Street– an establishment licensed to serve babies from infants to kindergarteners. According to reports, her daycare has a maximum capacity of three children at a time.
However, that didn’t seem to stop Wilson from undertaking five children in her care, per authorities. But that’s not the worst part.
Wilson, 32, went into a Kroger grocery store and reportedly left the five children in a sweltering car parked outside on Aug. 1. Those reportedly left in the hot car included a 10-month-old, a 1-year-old, a 2-year-old, a 6-year-old, and an 8-year-old. But according to authorities, she managed to take her own two children in the store with her.
Law & Crime reports it was over 90 degrees that day and the children were found by a witness “in distress, red-faced, and crying.” The car’s window was also “barely cracked” and the car was “not running.”
The outlet reports Wilson claimed the air conditioning was on in the car, but the store’s manager was dead set on the car being off and the kids being visibily sweaty and in distress. Per surveillance footage reviewed by local channel KTRK, the kids were in the car for over 40 minutes.
Last week, Wilson was arrested and has been slammed with five felony counts of child endangerment, per court records. Documents accuse Wilson, who is being held in the Harris County Jail, of “intentionally and knowingly” engaging in conduct that put the children “in imminent danger of bodily injury and death.” She’s scheduled to appear in court again on Oct. 15.
The Texas Department of State Health Services warned folks to never leave children in parked cars in July. Within a two week-period, according to the state agency, there were four cases of a child dying in a parked car and this year’s cases alone surpass the three car deaths recorded all of last year.
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