Inset: Domonique L. Wilson (Harris County Jail). Background: The Kroger where Wilson allegedly left five kids inside a hot car to go shopping (KRIV).
A 32-year-old woman in Texas who runs a day care out of her home has been arrested after she allegedly left the children of five clients in a hot parked car outside of a grocery store while she went shopping, bringing her own two children inside the store with her.
Domonique L. Wilson was taken into custody last week and charged with five felony counts of child endangerment, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.
State records from the Texas Department of Health and Human Services show that Wilson operates a day care called “My Little Angels” out of her home in the 8100 block of Stone Street. The establishment is licensed for to serve infants, toddlers, and kindergarteners and has a maximum capacity of three children at a time.
The state has performed two inspections of the day care, the latest being in April 2025, and found no deficiencies. Records further indicate that no complaints have been filed against the establishment.
According to court filings from the District Court for Harris County, Wilson at about 12 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 1, drove to the Kroger in the 6300 block of Telephone Road in Houston, Texas with five children she was charged with caring for as well as her own two children. The children allegedly left in the vehicle were a 10-month-old, a 1-year-old, a 2-year-old, a 6-year-old, and an 8-year-old.
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While there, authorities say Wilson “took her children into the store with her but left the 5 clients” children in the car in 91 degree weather” where a witness allegedly found the children “in distress, red-faced, and crying.” The charging documents accuse her of “intentionally and knowingly” engaging in conduct that placed the victims “in imminent danger of bodily injury and death.”
During Wilson’s first court appearance on Monday, a judge said that the witness found the children in the vehicle “with the window barely cracked and the car not running.”
“That is a very dangerous situation,” the judge said in courtroom footage provided by Houston Fox affiliate KRIV.
A witness told Houston CBS affiliate KHOU that she saw the manager of the Kroger “running with two kids — one on her arm and another one in a carrier.” The witness, who did not wish to appear on camera, said the manager was “running and screaming for the officer,” telling him that she had just found the two children in a hot car with no air conditioning on.
Additionally, the witness told the station that inside the store, Wilson claimed that the two children were hers and claimed that the AC was on in the vehicle. However, the manager was reportedly adamant that the car was not running and the children were visibly sweating and in discomfort.
Houston ABC affiliate KTRK reported that the manager reviewed the store’s surveillance footage and determined that the children had been in the car for just over 40 minutes.
Wilson is being held in Harris County Jail in lieu of $10,000 bond. She is scheduled to appear in court again on Oct. 15, records show.
