VICTOR, N.Y. (AP) - An online fundraising campaign has raised more than $16,000 for a western New York couple charged with leaving their three young children alone in a mall while the parents worked in the shopping center.
Amy Gagliano, a mother of three children, told WHAM-TV in Rochester (http://bit.ly/2nHgSig ) that she started a GoFundMe page for the parents after reading media reports of the Rochester couple's arrest last weekend.
Police say the 39-year-old father and the 36-year-old mother left their kids - ages 1 month, 6 and 8 - unsupervised on a hallway bench for more than six hours while the parents worked at their maintenance jobs at the Eastview Mall in Victor.
Both parents were issued court-appearance tickets for endangering the welfare of a child.
Gagliano says the money will go straight to the family's daycare and everyday necessities.
