Another child left outside casino
AFTER HER FATHER left her alone in his car on Saturday afternoon, when temperatures soared above 90, the 6-year-old girl was found running through the Parx Casino parking lot screaming "Papa!"
AFTER HER FATHER left her alone in his car on Saturday afternoon, when temperatures soared above 90, the 6-year-old girl was found running through the Parx Casino parking lot screaming "Papa!"
In the second such case in a month and the third this year, police charged the girl's father, Michael Roytman, with leaving her alone in his car while he went inside Parx to gamble.
Roytman, 29, of Huntingdon Valley, had left the keys in the ignition, but only hot air blew out of the car's vents, police said.
He told his little girl that she could roll the window down "if she needed to," said Bensalem Police Sgt. Andrew Aninsman.
She eventually was seen running through the parking lot, screaming.
When Roytman emerged from the casino at least 17 minutes after he left her, he drove around looking for her before he found her in the care of security, Aninsman said.
Police said Roytman was full of the same thing that blew out of his car's vents.
"He did make a statement, but nothing that would justify his actions," Aninsman said. "There's nothing he could possibly have said to justify his actions."
His daughter was turned over to her mother, Aninsman said.
Just two weeks earlier, Frances Casey, 39, of Abington, allegedly did the same thing. She left her 9-year-old niece and 1- and 2-year-old nephews alone in her car about 6:55 p.m. when she went inside Parx to gamble, police said.
Both remain free on bail.
