There is hot, and then there is Texas heat. The Lone Star state is no stranger to overwhelmingly hot temperatures, which is why every summer authorities reiterate the dangers of leaving anyone to languish for long in the sun. Sadly, one day care provider paid those warnings no mind and left five children in her care to melt in a car while she went shopping.
Domonique Wilson, the 32-year-old operator of My Lil Angels, allegedly took her own two children into a Kroger grocery store and left five of her clients’ children in a hot car in the parking lot while temperatures outside reached up to 97 degrees, according to the Fort Worth Star Telegram.
According to ABC 13, Wilson is facing five child endangerment charges and appeared in court the morning after the incident.
“There are five children who were endangered, found red-faced in distress, crying with the window barely cracked and the car not running,” the hearing officer stated.
Witnesses told local news KHOU-11 that a Kroger employee noticed the children, grabbed two of them, and rushed inside the store.
“I came across the cop and I saw the Kroger manager running with two kids, one on her arm and another one in a carrier, running, screaming for the officer, ‘I just found these two kids in the car with no AC on,'” the witness said.
An associate then screamed for help and said Wilson insisted the kids were hers and that the AC was on.
“The manager kept insisting it wasn’t on, the babies were sweating,” the witness said. “I’m happy because it could’ve been worse, so I’m really glad the manager took action and she took those babies out.”
In July, the Texas Department of State Health Services issued a warning to never leave kids in parked cars after in a two-week period in which it was reported there were four cases of children who died after being left in vehicles, which surpasses the total deaths reported in 2025.
