Chicago police are investigating after four young children were found home alone.
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.
A 5-year-old girl became stuck after falling through the guard rail of the fifth floor of her apartment.
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.
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.
Police say she left the five-month-old as well as two other children under the age of six years old alone at home.