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CT Mom Left 4 Young Kids Alone In 'Deplorable' Home While She Went To NY: Police (Updated)
A 40-year-old Connecticut mother is accused of leaving her four children — ages 11, 6, 4, and 3 — alone in an apartment filled with trash, feces, and filth with no food or clothing while she went to New York, authorities said.
Lindsey Powell, of Vernon in Tolland County, was arrested and charged on Monday, Nov. 18, with four counts of risk of injury to a minor, police said.
Vernon police were called to a home on Terrace Drive on Friday, Nov. 8, for a welfare check, and they found four of Powell's young children unsupervised, officials said. Three of the children were naked and th…
CT School Staffers Accused Of Failing To Report Abuse
Employees of a Connecticut school have been arrested on charges of failure to report abuse by a teacher.
The incident, which included the arrest of the alleged abuser in January, took place in Litchfield County at the Plymouth Center School in Plymouth.
Sherri Turner, age 59, of Farmington, was arrested on Tuesday, Aug. 23, and Melissa Morelli, age 45, of Plymouth, was arrested on Wednesday, Aug. 24.
Both were charged with failure to report abuse, neglect, or injury of a child or imminent risk of serious harm to a child, according to the Plymouth Police Department.
Plymouth Pu…
Man Caught Shoplifting Left Kids Home Alone, Norwalk Police Say
A Fairfield County man was arrested after being caught for alleged shoplifting at a Walmart store and then telling police he left his small children at home.
Christian Otero, 37, of Norwalk, was arrested on Sunday, Dec. 13, after running from a Walmart security officer with alleged stolen merchandise, said Lt. Jared Zwickler, of the Norwalk Police.
When officers arrived at the store, Otero was being held by loss prevention and was arrested by officers.
Otero had stolen $264 in merchandise from the store before running out, Zwickler said.
While being arrested he told the office…
Woman, 23, Charged After Baby Found Alone Crying In Car, Greenwich Police Say
A 23-year-old woman was charged after allegedly leaving her infant alone in a vehicle while she shopped in Fairfield County.
Wendy May Dimartino, of Stamford, was arrested after surrounding to Greenwich Police on Thursday, March 26, for the incident which took place on Wednesday, March 11, on Liberty Way, said Greenwich Police.
According to police, a citizen reported to Greenwich officers that an infant had been left alone in a car for at least 15 minutes, police said.
Officers arrived on the scene and found the baby and were able to locate the mother shopping about 100 yards away, police …
Officers Find Child At Home Alone After Woman Crashes Vehicle While Drunk, Greenwich Police Say
A Fairfield County woman turned herself into police on an active warrant for leaving a child alone and DUI.
Ana Dewitt, 22, of Shelton, surrendered to Greenwich Police on Friday, Dec. 6, for an incident which took place in October, the Greenwich Police said.
During the October incident, Greenwich Police responded to a vehicle crash on Pemberwick Road in which she suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
While investigating the crash, officers learned that a 2-year-old child was supposed to be in her care. The child was located, alone, but unharmed, at a local residence.
Dewitt…
Mom Talks About Twins' Hot-Car Deaths With Dr. Phil
For the first time since her 1-year-old twins died in a hot car in July, the Hudson Valley mother of the infants tells her tragic story on national TV.
Rockland resident Marissa Rodriguez, 37, of New City, will appear on the Dr. Phil show, at 3 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14, on WCBS-TV Channel 2. The program will air again at 8 p.m. on WLNY-TV 10/55.
The twins, Phoneix and Luna, died after their father, Juan Rodriguez, drove to his job on July 26, at the Veterans Administration hospital in the Bronx, and forgot to drop the infants off at their daycare in Yonkers.
Rodriguez, 39, and an Iraq War …
