Police have charged a woman after rescuing a child from a locked car in a Mount Isa car park on a baking-hot Thursday morning.
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At about 10am on Thursday February 22, Mount Isa police responded to reports of a child locked in a vehicle.
A witness contacted them with grave concerns for a child locked in a vehicle in a Miles St carpark.
Police officers smashed a window of the vehicle to rescue a two-year-old boy.
A 21-year-old woman was charged with endangering the life of a child by exposure and is due to appear before Mount Isa Magistrates Court on March 19.
“It is a serious offence to leave children unattended at anytime, but especially in the heat, and we will take a zero tolerance approach,” Acting Detective Senior Sergeant David Hall said.
The outside temperature at that time was over 40 degrees.
