Bowling Green Police charged a grandmother with child endangerment after a 4-year old was found walking alone along East Wooster Street.
Around 9:22 a.m. on Saturday, employees at the Wendy’s restaurant in the 1500 block of East Wooster Street noticed a child walking by herself. The employees took the girl inside, gave her a snack and drink, and called police.
The 4-year-old was able to tell police her first name and her mom’s first name. She said she was looking for her mom. After a few minutes of trying to get more information from her, the little girl could only provide that her mom works at a place that sells snacks and drinks.
Police began checking gas stations, and an officer learned that a woman with the mom’s first name had left one of the gas stations on East Wooster Street to find her daughter. Dispatch called the mother and she came to Wendy’s.
The mother said her daughter was being watched by her grandmother, Amy Hildebrand, who lives in the 1500 block of Clough Street.
Hildebrand told police she got up with her daughter’s children, but her daughter said to give the 4-year-old an iPad to occupy herself so the grandmother could go back to sleep. When Hildebrand woke up, her granddaughter was gone. She reportedly searched the area, checked a neighbor’s house and called her daughter – but never called police about the missing girl.
