Feb 15, 2018 2 min read

Cecil Township police refiled charges against a Pittsburgh woman accused of abandoning her teenage children along the side of a road more than a year ago and driving off with her 10-year-old daughter still in the vehicle.

Jennifer Saucier, 42, of Pittsburgh, was charged with three counts each of endangering the welfare of children and reckless endangerment in the Jan. 22, 2017, incident.

She was charged at the time, but the charges were later withdrawn for an unknown reason.

Saucier allegedly left her daughter, who was 14 at the time, and son, who was 15, at Millers Run Road and Route 980. The two children flagged down an officer who was driving by.

The children reportedly told police their mother abandoned them on the side of the road, and she had been acting very strange, crying and turning up the volume up on the radio.

At one point, the 14-year-old reportedly told her mother to pull over or she would call 911. Police said when the vehicle came to the intersection, the teens got out of the vehicle over concern for their safety, and their mother then drove off.

After the teens got out of the car, Saucier drove off going west on Millers Run with the 10-year-old in the car, police said.

Police were not immediately able to locate her. They said they eventually were able to “ping” her cellphone and find her and the 10-year-old in Bridgeport, W.Va., where Saucier was detained. The children were released to their respective fathers.

Charges were sent Thursday by summons from the office of District Judge Traci McDonald. Saucier is scheduled for an April 19 hearing before McDonald.