Police find 2 toddlers unconscious in locked car, mother arrested
BRIDGEPORT — A city mother is in custody after police said she left her two toddlers in her locked car while she got her nails done.
Police said the boys, ages 1 and 4, were found unconscious in the backseat of the car.
Tiffany Covington, 28, of Eagle Street, was charged with two counts of risk of injury to a child, and one count each of interfering with police and assault on a public safety officer.
She was being held in lieu of $250,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.
According to police, shortly after 5 p.m. on June 18, police were dispatched to the Price Rite parking lot on Boston Avenue for a complaint of two toddlers left unattended in the back of a car.
Police said officers
found the car, a silver Honda sedan, with its windows rolled up and the ignition off. The two toddlers appeared unconscious in the back seat, not breathing.
Firefighters responded and broke open the car, police said. Police said medics managed to revive the toddlers and they were taken to Bridgeport Hospital for evaluation.
Police said at the time it was more than 70 degrees in the car and there was no air motion inside. No food or water had been left for the children.
About five minutes later, police said Covington walked out of the nearby nail salon. Police said she told officers she had been inside, “getting her nails painted.”
When they tried to arrest her, police said Covington punched one of the officers in the chest, knocking off his body camera. She then attempted to flee the scene, police said.
When an officer brought Covington to the ground, police said she fought with officers, biting them on their hands until they managed to handcuff her.