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On July 5 at 12:23 p.m. Dfc. M. Robshaw responded to the parking lot in front of the Family Dollar store in Prince Frederick for the report of an unattended child in a vehicle.  

He observed a small child sitting alone in a parked vehicle.  Robshaw then observed a woman leave the store and get into the driver’s side of the vehicle. 

He made contact with the woman, who stated she had only run into the store to purchase one item and had asked two males who were standing outside the store to watch the child.  Robshaw made contact with the two males who advised that the woman had not asked either of them to watch the child. 

Another witness further advised Robshaw that she had also seen the woman leave the child unattended in the vehicle while she went to another store in the same shopping center. 

Robshaw cited the woman, identified as Sonya Denise Jones, 44 of Prince Frederick, with confining a child in a motor vehicle.