PARKERSBURG, WV (LOOTPRESS) – A Parkersburg woman has been charged with child neglect after police say her three-year-old child was found wandering alone near a roadway earlier this month.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Wood County, an officer responded to Staunton Avenue in Parkersburg on Aug. 17 after a report of a young child walking along the road without adult supervision.

When the officer arrived, a neighbor had the child in her care. The neighbor told police she had been returning a loose pit bull to the property when she noticed the toddler outside unattended.

Police say repeated attempts to contact someone at the residence went unanswered. During a search of the home, officers eventually located two adults — including the child’s mother, identified as Elissa Knight

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