A Florida mother's Walmart run came to an alarming end when police arrested her in the parking lot where she allegedly left her three young children inside a hot car .

Ciara Washington, 29, was charged with child neglect after police arrested her on Sept. 14 outside a Walmart store in Sunrise, Florida. According to an arrest document obtained by local news station WPLG, Washington was seen on surveillance video going inside the store just after 3 p.m. that day and did not return to her car until 3:46 p.m.

While she was inside, other Walmart shoppers called 911 to report that her three young children were by themselves in a hot car on the 90-degree day with the windows rolled up.

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