HATCH, N.M. (KRQE) – A Hatch daycare worker is accused of leaving a four-year-old child in a hot van. Court records state that the mother called Little Footprints Early Childhood Development Learning Center last Friday to see if the boy could stay longer than normal.
The staff told her the boy was not at school but the mother said a Little Footprints driver picked him up earlier that day. That’s when police said the staff found him in the back seat awake but sweating profusely. The driver, Andrea Martinez, is now facing a child abuse charge.