ABC News executive producer Dax Tejeras wife, Veronica, is facing two charges of child endangerment for leaving their 2-year-old and 5-month-old daughters unattended in their hotel room while they dined at a Manhattan restaurant where Tejera died of a heart attack.

When Dax collapsed on December 23rd, I accompanied him in an ambulance to the hospital, Veronica told ET and the New York Post on Monday. I asked both a close friend and my parents to rush to my childrens hotel room to attend to them as I monitored them by camera.

Veronica, 33, added that the hotel refused to allow her friend entry into the room and instead called the NYPD. According to a statement from the departments Deputy Commissioner Public Information Office obtained by USA Today , officers responded to the call at 11 p.m.

Veronica added she had two cameras trained on my children as they slept and monitored them closely while she was at the hospital with Dax. While she noted the girls were unharmed, she also wrote in her statement that her split-second decision was a poor one.

Police arrived to find unattended children inside of 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, an address that corresponds with The Yale Club hotel. Officers noted the children had been left alone inside of a hotel room for an extended period of time.