A South Milwaukee woman is facing three counts of child neglect after allegedly leaving three small children alone in her car at the Cudahy Kmart.
Ashley Pirlot, 26, is facing a maximum penalty of nearly eight years in prison if convicted.
According to a criminal complaint, Cudahy Police were called to the Kmart for three small children left alone in the car last Friday.
The car was unlocked and it was 35 degrees out when the children were found.
Pirlot, the children’s mother was found in the store. When asked why she didn’t bring the children in with her, she said she “couldn’t fit all the kids in the shopping cart and she did not want to deal with seat belts and the kids running around the store.”
Pirlot said she was in the store for seven or eight minutes. Police said surveillance footage showed she was in the store for about 17 minutes before she came up to the officers.
She also said when she was a child, her mother was arrested for leaving Pirlot and her sister in a car while she watched a Packers game.
