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Parents arrested for locking three children in sweltering hot car

07:01 PM PDT on Saturday, June 2, 2007

By JACK PENNING and NICK BRADSHAW, kgw.com Staff

Two parents were arrested on Friday after deputies found their children locked in a sweltering car at a Clackamas shopping center.

Clackamas County Sheriff's Office

Deputies said the temperature inside the car was probably close to 140 degrees.

It was about 2:30 Friday afternoon when the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office got the call. Someone told dispatchers that three young kids were locked in a car with the windows rolled-up at the Clackamas Promenade.

Sheriff's deputies say the temperature outside was in the mid 80's but the inside of the car was close to 140 degrees.

Detective Jim Strovink with the Clackamas County Sheriff's office said 26-year old Alena Obrezha and 27-year-old Dmitriy Buzhduga left their three children, ages six, four and 14-months, inside their car with the doors locked and the windows rolled up while they went shopping.

An alert passerby called 9-1-1.

Deputies arrived and broke into the car. One deputy used the ice pack from his lunch to cool off the 14-month-old. That infant was taken to the hospital with "serious" heat-related injuries and was admitted with a 105.1 degree temperature. The other children were treated by emergency personnel.

Both parents were arrested on felony, criminal mistreatment charges. They each posted $4,500 bail on Saturday morning.

The children were placed in state custody.

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