FAIRBANKS, Alaska—
A Fairbanks woman has been accused of leaving her children in a car after it slid in a ditch with temperatures approaching 30 below.The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://bit.ly/xeectK) reports that Alaska State Troopers say the woman abandoned her children after the car became stuck Friday morning.
Troopers say inside the car were a 3-year-old and 4-year-old. One child was dressed in a tank top and shorts and the other wore a diaper.
Troopers say 25-year-old Kristin Smith told them she left the children in the car to walk a quarter mile to her husband's home.
But troopers say once there she took some prescription medication and fell asleep and never returned to the vehicle.
Smith is facing felony charges of endangering the welfare of a child.
