Pennsylvania’s Valley Forge Casino To Install Infrared Cameras To Watch For Kids in Cars
Posted on: November 12, 2021, 10:12h. 
Last updated on: November 13, 2021, 04:19h.
The enhanced quantity of unattended minors left in parked vehicles at Pennsylvania’s Valley Forge Casino Resort whilst adults gamble has led the gaming home to take numerous new precautions. A single contains installing infrared surveillance cameras.
The infrared cameras can detect heat if a youngster or other person is in a parked automobile. That will help security guards patrolling autos with darkened windows.
In total, the gaming home and officials from its parent business, Boyd Gaming, said this week they plan to spend $776,000 on prevention and education relating to the problem. These specifics incorporate more warning indicators. The indicators will be located in hotel rooms, in the casino’s foot court, and in parking lots.
Because January, Valley Forge, located in King of Prussia, saw 22 instances when unattended kids have been left in cars or other automobiles. That compares to 15 such incidents in the past 3 years, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Far more casino security personnel are patrolling parking places searching for unattended children, also. Valley Forge also hired Upper Merion, Pa. cops to patrol parking lots on weekends in the course of the current football season. That is when there is much more sports betting, the Inquirer stated.
If caught leaving little ones in autos, the suspects could be prosecuted and banned for life from the state’s casinos.
When appearing prior to the Pennsylvania Gaming Handle Board on Wednesday, Adrian R. King Jr., an attorney who represents Valley Forge, warned “This difficulty … truly sits at the feet of quite irresponsible parents.
We recognize we have a duty to run a safe and safe home,” he told the Inquirer. “While we can in no way avert human stupidity … we can attempt to mitigate it and make confident that dumb decisions do not turn out to be tragic ones.”
Irresponsible Adults
Pennsylvania Gaming Handle Board Executive Director Kevin O’Toole stated reports of the incidents are “increasingly disturbing to the board.” Board members praised Valley Forge and Boyd Gaming for taking the safeguards, the newspaper reported.
It also appears some of the enhanced number of incidents this year came about following personnel had been educated to watch for unattended youngsters. The casino is providing workers gift certificates to watch out for such instances.
Statewide, because 2011, 131 adults have been excluded from Pennsylvania casinos for leaving youngsters unattended in autos. Eight incidents at Valley Forge so far this year related to these going inside the casino to the sportsbook.
Certain Allegations
In June, when an infant was left in a car at the casino, security guards broke windows to reach the young child. A parent was sent to jail after authorities subdued the adult, the Inquirer said.
Also, earlier this year in the state, Jameila Mack reportedly was placed on the casino exclusion list in April. That’s soon after allegedly leaving her 12- and five-year-old children unattended in a vehicle for two hours even though she was at Harrah’s Philadelphia Casino.
In addition, Samy Hassan was reportedly placed on the list in July after allegedly leaving an 11-year-old child unattended at Wind Creek Casino in Bethlehem for over two hours.
In addition, Zachary Bohinski, 28, identified as the pastor at Fells Methodist Church in Rostraver, was charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and disorderly conduct. That’s soon after allegedly leaving two youngsters in a car unattended at Reside! Casino Pittsburgh, as reported by KDKA, a neighborhood Television station.
While his daughters had been in the auto on July 31, Bohinski went into the property’s Guy Fieri’s restaurant and ate an order of “trash can nachos,” KDKA stated. Then he won $1,600 on the slots.
