A 40-year-old Utah woman charged with locking her two young children in the trunk of her car last year while she went inside a Walmart store to shop has been sentenced to probation.
Tori Lee Castillo, of Ogden, was charged in Riverdale Justice Court with two class B misdemeanor counts of reckless child abuse.
On Thursday, Castillo pleaded guilty to one of the counts and the other was dismissed.
Judge Reuben Renstrom suspended a potential 180-day jail term and ordered Castillo to complete 60 hours of community service as part of a 12-month probation.
Riverdale police say that on May 25, witnesses heard the children, ages 2 and 5, making noise and saw the car shaking, so they got the older child to pull the emergency latch and called 911.