A 27-year-old woman has been charged after a video of her 9-month-old daughter crawling unsupervised across a busy road in Upstate New York surfaced on social media, raising concerns about the welfare of the child.
Ledrika Ford of Utica was charged on Friday, March 9, with endangering the welfare of a child after officers saw the video of the infant alone on the road, with several passersby providing assistance to the child at around 10:30 p.m., according to a police statement.