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Child Home Alone

Mom left her 2 kids home alone to go cruise: records

  • Apr 14, 2024

1 charged after 4 young kids left home alone on West Side: CPD

  • Jan 2, 2024

4 young kids left home alone for holidays on West Side: CPD

  • Jan 2, 2024

Kids shut in house for 10 hours as mom gambled, drank, records state

  • May 31, 2023

2 kids - 3 and 12 years old - left at home without mom for 2 months

  • Feb 10, 2023

Young boy found wandering alone on West Side: CPD | Video

  • Jun 22, 2022

Baby critically injured, mother in custody hours after 2 children found home alone

  • Apr 9, 2021

3 children rescued from Washington Park apartment fire; no adults home: CFD

  • Mar 18, 2021

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CPD investigating after 4 young children left home alone on South Side

  • Sep 1, 2025
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1 charged after 4 young kids left home alone on West Side: CPD

  • Jan 2, 2024
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Woman charged after 4 children found home alone on West Side

  • Jan 2, 2024
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4 young kids left home alone for holidays on West Side: CPD

  • Jan 2, 2024
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4 young kids left home alone for holidays on West Side: CPD

  • Jan 1, 2024
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Young boy found wandering alone on West Side: CPD | Video

  • Jun 22, 2022
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Baby critically injured, mother in custody hours after 2 children found home alone

  • Apr 9, 2021

Latest Stories

Valparaiso girl, 5, waits in cold for 2 hours after taking school bus home instead of getting daycare pickup

A 5-year-old girl in Valparaiso waited outside her empty home in the cold for two hours after being put on a bus to go home from school instead of being picked up for daycare.

  • Feb 23, 2021

VIDEO: Firefighters in China rescue girl dangling by her head

A 5-year-old girl became stuck after falling through the guard rail of the fifth floor of her apartment.

  • Jul 24, 2019

Sentencing for mother charged after fatal Gary fire killed 2 kids expected

A Gary mother has been accused of leaving her three young children in a burning apartment in March 2018. She is due to be sentenced Monday.

  • Jun 17, 2019

Family wants answers after wounded robbery suspect slips out of UNC Hospital

The family of an 11-year-old North Carolina boy who fended off a home intruder with a machete is demanding answers after the suspect walked out of the hospital Friday night while in a hospital gown.

  • Jun 16, 2019

Woman arrested after 5-month-old left home alone dies

Police say she left the five-month-old as well as two other children under the age of six years old alone at home.

  • Apr 4, 2019