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An Owasso woman was charged with child neglect Monday on allegations that she attempted to force her children to blow into her vehicle’s ignition-interlock device so she could drive her car while drunk.

Kayla Kathleen Martin-Weliwita, 36, faces charges of child neglect and public intoxication.

The charges allege that Martin-Weliwita made her 13-year-old and 9-year-old daughters blow into the ignition-interlock system on May 29 because she was too intoxicated to override the device and start the car.

Owasso police officers came into contact with Martin-Weliwita about midnight that night when they were called to the Buffalo Wild Wings at 9263 N. Owasso Expressway about a woman fighting with her daughter in the parking lot, according to her arrest and booking report.

When officers spoke with Martin-Weliwita, she smelled of alcohol and told police she was fighting with her daughter because the daughter was trying to run away, the report states. She also told officers she’d had one alcoholic beverage, a “Smirnoff,” the document says.