The parents of a toddler face charges after the child was found walking in the roadway in Jefferson Saturday, according to a release from the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office.
Around noon, Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority medics and Kanawha County deputies responded to calls of a toddler wearing only a diaper in the roadway near 5800 MacCorkle Avenue, the release says.
The toddler, a 23-month-old girl, was not injured.
The parents, Tammie L. Gibson, 25, and Robert R. Hayes, 32, were arrested and charged with neglect creating risk of serious bodily injury. Both were processed at the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office and transported to the South Central Regional Jail.