HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- A mother accused of leaving her 8-year-old daughter alone in the parking lot of a bank to fend for herself.
Zaida Gonzalez is charged with abandoning & endangering a child without intent to return.
On Monday at about 4:15 a.m., deputies responded to a call of a missing juvenile in the 11500 block of Grapewood. At the scene, deputies canvassed the area & began looking for the young girl.
As the search for the girl went into the morning hours, authorities got a call from the child's father that she had been found.
When authorities talked with the girl & her father, the 8-year-old said she was with her mom, Gonzalez, who was allegedly driving drunk & erratically. When the girl told her mother to slow down, she was told to get out of the car.
Gonzalez then left her daughter in the parking lot of a bank, where she walked .6 miles, alone in the dark to a nearby gas station for help.
A clerk at the gas station called the Houston Police Department, as well as another family member who was able to get the girl.
Surveillance video from a nearby business confirmed the story.
At about 11:11 a.m. deputies returned to Gonzalez's home, where she was taken into custody without incident. She is out on a $10,000 bond.
Records show this is not Gonzalez's first incident. In 2007 she was charged with endangering a child.
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