Copiague mom left child in running car at Target, police say
Juliia Medvid, 29, of Copiague, was arrested Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016, after she left her 5-year-old child unattended in a running vehicle in the parking lot of a Levittown Target, Nassau County police said. Credit: NCPD
A Copiague mother who left her 5-year-old in a running car while she went into a department store faces child endangerment charges, Nassau County police said Thursday.
Juliia Medvid, 29, of Montauk Highway, told Second Precinct officers she was only in a Levittown Target for a few minutes when they responded to the store, at 3850 Hempstead Tpke., shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Officers arrested her on a charge of endangering the welfare of a child; she is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday at First District Court in Hempstead.
The child was released to a family friend, police said.
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