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Police said parents left five children in their Maple Heights home to tailgate for the Sept. 21 Cleveland Browns game.

(Gus Chan)

MAPLE HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Three Maple Heights parents left five children unattended at a home on the 14000 block of Corrindon Avenue to tailgate at the Sept. 21 Browns game, police reports say.

The children were between the ages of seven and 10.

A Maple Heights police officer went to the house around 2:45 p.m. after one of the children dialed 911 and hung up. The child told police he called because the group was having an argument.

The 9-year-old child told the officer that he and the other children had been at the house alone for several hours because their parents, 28-year-old Rashad Williams Sr., 28-year-old Shauntia Williams and 29-year-old Valerie Norris went to the Browns game to tailgate.

Police called the Williams' cousin to the house to watch the children until their parents returned.

The officer said when he was leaving, he saw Rashad Williams Sr. driving a large tailgating camper.

All three parents were issued citations for child endangering.