Day Care Owner Charged with DUI

The owner of a day care center in Wichita, Kansas is facing criminal charges after she was caught driving seven children while under the influence of alcohol.

Margaret E Walker, 49, has been charged with DUI, DUI with children under 14, driving without a license, driving on a suspended license, and for not having a child under the age of four in a child restraint.

Since the arrest, Walker's day care license has been suspended and the center has been closed.

Walker has a previous DUI conviction on her record under her maiden name, Margaret Self.  She was arrested in April and eventually pleaded guilty to the DUI charges. The judge sentenced her to probation.

Police were alerted to the most recent incident when Walker came to the center and the staff noticed she smelled strongly of alcohol. But before the police arrived Walker took seven children in a company vehicle on a field trip.  She was arrested as soon as she pulled back into the center's parking lot.

If convicted Walker could be sentenced to an extended probation, fines, license suspension, mandatory DUI school, and incarceration.

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