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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington County, PA) A man from Charleroi is in jail after according to South Strabane police, he left two young girls locked in a hot car on Sunday for around forty-five minutes. This occurred in a Walmart parking lot in South Strabane and South Strabane police confirm the car was not running and the windows were closed. According to court documents, medics took two girls, one nine months and one three years old, to the hospital for medical emergencies Sunday afternoon. The mother of these two girls told police that Fritzson Charles was the man taking care of them. The chief of the South Strabane Township Police Department told KDKA Charles is not the father of those two girls. Charles was arrested on multiple charges which included endangering the welfare of children. Charles was taken to the Washington County Jail and July 22nd is the date for his preliminary hearing.