Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007
By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer Staff Writer
A Morganton woman was charged with child abuse early Sunday after, authorities said, she left her sleeping children in a car while she went dancing at a Hickory club.
Georgina Marquez, 37, was charged with two counts of misdemeanor child abuse after Hickory police officers found her 10- and 12-year-old sons in a car parked outside Fantacia's dance club on U.S. 70.
About 1:30 a.m., officers were issuing parking tickets to cars illegally parked along the highway when they noticed the boys sleeping in the car, said Hickory police Sgt. Scott Hildebrand.
The boys told authorities that their mother left them in the car about 10:40 p.m. Saturday so she could take their 18-year-old sister dancing at the club, according to the police report.
Temperatures early Sunday morning were in the low 50s, and, according the police report, the boys were dressed in shorts and T-shirts when officers found them.
Police called the Department of Social Services, Hildebrand said, before the children were released to Marquez. Marquez was released on $2,000 bond and will make her first court appearance Feb. 14.
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