Forest Hills Mother Charged with Endangerment After 4-Year-Old Found Wandering

The child, who had walked from her home to the Plaza Shopping Center, had no shoes or coat on a snowy day.

Markea Kirby, 31, of Forest Hills faces a preliminary hearing before District Judge Thomas Caulfield at 9 a.m. Dec. 5 on charges of endangering the welfare of children after her 4-year-old daughter was found wandering alone in the Plaza Shopping Center on Ardmore Boulevard on Nov. 27. According to an incident report filed by Forest Hills police, a woman approached an officer on patrol in the shopping center to advise him that another woman had found a very young child without shoes or a jacket near Jodi B's Restaurant. The second woman told the officer she had been driving through the shopping center, spotted the child and was concerned for her safety. The woman put her coat on the young girl and was holding her to keep her feet off the …

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