Police rescued 2 children from a locked car while their mom sat inside a nail salon that was supposed to be shut down under coronavirus lockdown orders

• Police in Baltimore broke a car window to rescue two children who had been inside for an hour.
• Police say their mother had been in a nail salon that was supposed to be closed under state lockdown orders.
• The Baltimore woman, 21-year-old Keontae Moodie, was charged with two counts of leaving her children unattended.
• The nail salon was later shut down.
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A 21-year-old Baltimore woman has been charged with two counts of leaving her children unattended after police had to break her car window to rescue them while she was getting her nails done at an illegally opened salon, Baltimore County said in a statement.

When police arrived on scene, an officer saw a 3-month-old boy and a 3-year-old girl inside of a parked black Honda with no adult supervision. After trying to find the adults responsible for the children unsuccessfully, the officer used his baton to break the driver's side window to remove the children, according to the statement.

The day's temperature was in the 70s and the car wasn't running, according to the statement.

A nearby nail salon had the shades drawn, but a police supervisor on the scene could see people inside and knocked until an employee came to the door, according to the statement.

A woman inside, Keontae Moodie, 21, told police that she was the owner of the car and those were her two children.

Moodie was issued a summons charging her with two counts of leaving a child unattended.

First Class Nail Salon — which was supposed to be closed during the state's coronavirus lockdown orders — was told to shut down, according to the county's statement.

"We're still in a pandemic and we still don't have the solutions to the problem," Sgt Vickie Warehime told Fox 5 Baltimore. "Getting your nails done should not supersede the safety of your family, your kids, and others who you put yourself in contact with."