PHOTO: Gina Barritt carries her child while being accompanied by a police officer Monday on Greenwich Avenue. (Neil Vigdor/Greenwich Time photo)By Debra Friedman
staff writer
Posted: 06/08/2009 06:08:00 PM EDT
A Riverside woman was arrested Monday and charged with leaving her 4-week-old baby in a hot car while running an errand at a bank on Greenwich Avenue, police said.
Gina Barrit, of Old Kings Highway, was charged with leaving a child unattended in a vehicle after police, firefighters and Greenwich Emergency Medical Services personnel arrived at about 3 p.m. to find the baby crying inside the locked car. The baby was unharmed.
Lt. Mark Kordick said the front windows of the Lexus were closed and the back windows were only cracked an inch......
....The incident prompted a crowd of onlookers to gather as an ambulance arrived to check the baby's vital signs. As police investigated, Kordick could be heard telling the officers "we're going to lock her up."
Police opted to allow the woman to walk her baby down the block to the station where she was later booked on the misdemeanor charge.
Barrit had not been released as of 6 p.m. Monday because police had not finished processing her, they said.
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