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Jersey City: Man left girl, 6, in unlocked car overnight on busy Jersey City street.
A man has been charged after he left a 6-year-old girl alone in SUV overnight on Montgomery Street in Jersey City Saturday, authorities said Monday.
The girl was unattended in the unlocked vehicle for roughly nine hours, from 1 a.m. to 10 a.m., when security officers from Saint Peter’s University saw the girl, according to witnesses at the scene.
The 6-year-old was taken to the Jersey City Medical Center to be evaluated and she was in good health Monday, Wallace-Scalcione said.
Zakaria Moustafa, 51, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Wallace-Scalcione did not say if or how the two are related.
The SUV was parked on Montgomery Street, between Kennedy Boulevard and West Side Avenue, next to the university, Jersey City spokeswoman Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione said.
Joe Shine, a freelance photographer for The Jersey Journal, said he was told by a witness that the driver was seen on security camera footage parking the car there at 1 a.m. and walking away.
Kelly Daletto
It’s only a misunderstanding in Lakewood
Patrick Brennan yup
Lisa Ehlers Jesse
Crystal Ehlers Verdura I saw this morning. Was actually thinking about tagging you! Lol!!
Fucking idiots.
Cant fix stupid
Unbelievable. Lakewood crew does it, kid dies, it’s a misunderstanding. This guy does it, kid is physically fine, he gets charged.
Dean Booth she was charged
yeah, with child endangerment. The kid freaking died
Tara DeFalco and it took 7 weeks to charge just the mother. The father was also involved and no charges were bought against him
Tara DeFalco it took 7 weeks after the initial attempted cover-up, and the “permanent student” father gets away with it. There was a similar case where the child dies and the parent was charged with murder and got life. Just illustrating how lopsided this situation is
Dean Booth she was charged. He wasn’t because he wasn’t the one driving the vehicle nor was he in the car at the time. The dumb ass mother left her kid in the car because the kids was crying about not wanting to go to daycare. That’s the only reason he wasn’t charged. He isn’t responsibile for the mother’s actions or results of her actions. Unfortunately she won’t be sent to jail. And we’ll most likely never hear again about the situation. It’s a shame how one sided the law is.
Leaving a child in the car is never a misunderstanding.They are just stupid I’m sure they took in there cell phone
poor kid must have been terrified
This makes me upset to hear this, how could people “forget” a child… Dean Booth I was just about to say the same thing… And I bet she’s going to get away with it
Montgomery is a busy street and it’s not in the best area. It runs right alongside Saint Peter’s University, and that family is fortunate that the child was found by a university security guard and not some thug.
Such BS!!! If he were a Orthodox living in “Takewood” he’d be a free man.
Thankfully the child is ok & no ONE should judge until they know the entire story!! Six year olds can be michevious, defiant, playful etc….there could be 1000 explanations to why this happened!!
A$$hole