By Staff Reports
Updated 8:11 AM Monday, May 18, 2009

SPRINGFIELD - A Marysville mother was arrested on Friday, May 15, after police found her having sex with a man in the front seat of a car while her two young children sat in the back seat, according to police reports.

Danica A. Wallace, 24, was charged with two counts of endangering children as well as public indecency, drug paraphernalia and driving while intoxicated and taken to Clark County Jail, according to a Springfield police report. Her 3-year-old son and 1-year-old daughter were taken in by family.

Police said they found Wallace engaged in sexual activity with Eric Welch, 29, of Springfield. Wallace told police that she had been driving, but pulled over to have sex with Welch because they could not have sex at the friend’s house where they had been, according to the police report.

Wallace admitted to drinking and failed a field sobriety test; and police found open beer bottles and a piece of foil with marijuana residue in the vehicle, according to the report.

Welch, of 275 W. Fifth St., was charged with public indecency, according to the report.