PONCHATOULA — Ponchatoula police arrested a woman accused of abandoning her child at a laundromat.

According to police, a person called 911 after witnessing Jeanette Edmonds, 43, of Tickfaw, drive away from the laundromat, leaving her 8-year-old child behind on Sunday. 

Edmonds allegedly tried to abandon the child twice earlier that day, once at a cemetery and again at a farm.

A family member picked the child up from the police station on Sunday afternoon.

Police said Edmonds was found in Harvey by the Jefferson Parish deputies. She was booked into the Tangipahoa Parish Jail on charges of cruelty to juveniles, child desertion and criminal abandonment.