FAR ROCKAWAY, Queens (WABC) -- The mother of a 5-year-old boy was arrested after the child was discovered outside of a laundromat in Queens without adult supervision on Tuesday, according to authorities.

An employee of the laundromat, located at 25-15 Seagirt Blvd. in Far Rockaway, called police around 5:30 a.m. to report a child wandering alone outside.

Eyewitness News obtained surveillance video of the child, who is seen running aimlessly through the laundromat parking lot.

A worker took notice of the shoeless child who looked lost.

"She tells me he's confused, it's sad," said Elizabeth Jimenez, the co-worker of the woman who found the child. "It's like he can't understand where exactly the house was."

Jimenez's co-worker was just as bewildered as the child as she took him to safet

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