HOOKSETT, N.H. (WHDH) - A woman in New Hampshire was arrested Monday after her two young children were found walking in the road alone.
Police say they responded to an area of Route 3 Monday around 5:15 p.m. after receiving a report that two small children were walking along the busy road.
When police arrived, they found that a Good Samaritan had stopped and brought the children to the safety of a nearby parking lot.
The children were determined to be ages 4 and 6. Police say that the 4-year-old had partially fallen into the road at one point.
Police later located the mother, identified as Luciana Casiano-Velez, 26 of Hooksett, New Hampshire.
Casiano-Velez told police she had let the children outside unattended but that they were supposed to be at the playground.
She was arrested on two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and is due in court Aug. 30.
The children were released to a family member.
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