‘Several Good Samaritans observed this and came to the aid of the children,’ said Police Lt. Casey Warren, according to the Deseret News.
Riverdale police Lt. Casey Warren said police were dispatched to the Riverdale Wal-Mart after a witness called police, claiming to see a woman lock two children in her car before she left to go shopping.
The children, ages 2 and 5, began making noise and moving frantically, causing the vehicle to shake, Warren said.
“Several good Samaritans observed this and came to the aid of the children,” Warren said.
One of the witnesses, Charity Maw, said she was in the parking lot when she heard crying and pounding coming from the trunk.
‘I was shocked, I was shaken, and I was mad,’ she told ABC 4. ‘And there’s two kids there, tears coming down their face. Bawling. They were scared. The little girl’s voice. Just screaming, ‘Let me out! I’m scared.”

Witness Charity Maw said when the trunk was opened, the two children were ‘bawling’ and ‘scared’

‘I wouldn’t lock a dog in a trunk, let alone a kid,’ said Maw.
Another witness told KSTU that when Castillo returned to the scene, she said her babysitter had failed to show.
‘It’s never right to lock a child inside of a vehicle, let alone a trunk of a vehicle. Obviously there’s a lot of things that could go wrong,’ Warren told the outlet. ‘The fumes from the cars passing by, they could suffer carbon monoxide poisoning.
Warren says the state child welfare was contacted.
Castillo has not been officially charged, while the children aheve been placed in the custody of their father.