A young Texas mother left her 16-month-old son home alone overnight and traveled 150 miles to go on a date, after police discovered the child covered in feces and hanging out the window. Had been.
Reese Lewis Myers, 25, was arrested earlier this month on charges of abandoning or endangering a child for the July 28 incident. KWTX reported.
The mother, from Killeen, Texas, allegedly fled the state and was captured on a fugitive warrant in California on Nov. 5, police said. told The Independent. He has since been extradited back to the Lone Star State to face charges.
Killeen police officers were called to the Myers home just before 10 a.m. on July 28 after neighbors called to report that the child was hanging from a broken window of a ground-level apartment, while an aggressive dog was attempting to attack the child. Was doing. KWTX.
When police arrived they saw the child with his head and shoulders out of the window — which had previously been fixed with cardboard and plexiglass — and saw the dog attack residents who tried to get the child out, police said in an affidavit. Were trying.
According to an affidavit obtained by the local station, officers removed cardboard and plexiglass and climbed through the window and found the little boy wearing just a shirt with feces on his skin.
The document says they noticed there were no other people inside – there were only two dogs guarding the child – and saw signs that the child’s parents had left the child unsupervised. Some precautions were taken in the situation.
According to the affidavit, police called Myers, who told them she was currently in San Antonio — about a two-and-a-half hour drive away — with a guy she met on the dating app Hinge.
She claimed she hired a babysitter from Facebook to care for her son while she was on a date, but police spoke to the babysitter who told them she had not cared for children since December 2023 or Myers. Haven’t talked to, says the doctor.
The affidavit states that a former roommate of Myers told police that the mother would often leave her son at home at night and not return until the next day, and claimed that the boy would sleep through the night.
The woman stayed with the mother and son for a month in October 2023 and reportedly told police she noticed signs of child neglect.
Myers has since been booked into the Bell County Jail, KWTX reports.
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