A Merced woman was arrested after allegedly leaving her 4-year-old daughter on a bank of the Merced River for hours in the middle of the night when temperatures were in the 50s.
Authorities first learned the girl was missing at 12:30 a.m. when her mother showed up naked at a quarry at the end of Shaffer Road, about seven miles north of Atwater, according to California Highway Patrol Officer Eric Zuniga. She told employees she’d been involved in a crash and left her daughter in the vehicle while she went for help.
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