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Police in West Reading received a 911 call from a "special needs victim" just before 12:30 a.m. on Nov. 26, saying that he couldn't get in his house and that no one was inside, the department wrote in a statement. The boy said the door handle was broken, and that his uncle had left earlier and had not returned yet, they added.
Officers arrived to find the boy standing outside without shoes, according to the statement. When they opened the door for him, police said they saw "drug paraphernalia and weapons" — including knives and guns — "out in the open within the juvenile victim's reach."
Investigators later determined that the boy's uncle, 29-year-old Exsain Villasenor-Espino, had left the house at about 1 p.m. that night and was not able to be contacted again until 2:25 a.m.
Villasenor-Espino is charged with one count of endangering the welfare of a child, they added.
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