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Mother Facing Charges After Two Children Allegedly Left In Hot Car For Three Hours

By: KDKA-TV News Staff

CLEVELAND, Oh. (KDKA) -- Police officers in Ohio saved two little girls who were left alone in a hot car while their mother donated plasma.

An alert Uber driver spotted one of the girls as she was hanging out of the car window in Cleveland, while calling for her mother.

It turns out the other left the girls alone in the car for three hours on an 80 degree day.

Officers' body camera video shows them trying to explain to the mother how dangerous the whole situation was.

The children were taken to the hospital to be checked out, and they were okay.

The mother is facing charges.

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